Bug 50278 - Provide separate dock icons for each component on Mac OS X instead of or in addition to the global launcher
Summary: Provide separate dock icons for each component on Mac OS X instead of or in a...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: Master old -3.6
Hardware: All Mac OS X (All)
: medium enhancement
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: 57594 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 42082
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Reported: 2012-05-23 05:28 UTC by Chris Cunningham
Modified: 2014-12-08 16:37 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Chris Cunningham 2012-05-23 05:28:14 UTC 
LibreOffice counterpart to https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=87090

Presently, LibreOffice for Mac OS X installs the entire suite into one .app bundle. There are no separate launchers for the individual components, so users cannot have e.g. an icon for Writer in the dock.

The AOO ticket has an attached solution in the form of "dummy" .apps for each component which only contain a bit of AppleScript. Whether the license is suitable or not (the attachment dates back to 2008, as the bug was originally filed against OO.o) it should be easy enough to reconstruct from first principles.
Comment 1 Roman Eisele 2012-05-24 03:01:33 UTC 
Set Status to NEW because this is a valid enhancement request (there are no separate dock icons for the components of LibreOffice 3.3.x, 3.4.x, or 3.5.x on MacOS X).

(Personally, I don't know if this would be a good enhancement -- I prefer the way it is now --, but this does not change the fact that this is a valid request. ;-)
Comment 2 Roman Eisele 2012-11-27 10:11:09 UTC 
*** Bug 57594 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Roman Eisele 2012-11-27 10:12:20 UTC 
(Copied “see also” hint to appropriate field.)
Comment 4 Emir Sarı (away) 2012-11-27 10:51:53 UTC 
I also do support this. 

+1
Comment 5 GSC 2014-12-08 11:00:01 UTC 
Still an issue with 4.3.4.1 on OS X 10.10. Is it so hard for osx?
Comment 6 Alex Thurgood 2014-12-08 16:35:46 UTC 
(In reply to GSC from comment #5)
> Still an issue with 4.3.4.1 on OS X 10.10. Is it so hard for osx?

Yes. The simple fact of the matter is that there are an insufficient number of developers working on the OSX port, and other more important problems to solve. 

The solution to this :

- put up with it ;
- do it yourself ;
- find someone to do it for you for free ;
- pay someone to do it for you.

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