fix(macos): don't show a second Dock icon while helper scripts run - #90
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The startup update check runs py-interp, which creates a QApplication and lives inside UTV.app, so macOS showed a second UTV icon bouncing in the Dock on every launch. The helper scripts show their UI through osascript, not Qt; run them on Qt's offscreen platform, which never registers with the Dock. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Oliver <mcoliver@gmail.com>
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Summary
On every launch a second UTV icon bounced in the Dock for a few seconds. It is the startup update check: the app runs
py-interp openutv-check-updates.py --startup,py-interpcreates aQApplication, and because the executable lives insideUTV.app, macOS registers it as another foreground "UTV" application.The helper scripts (update check, diagnostics, supercharge FFmpeg) show their UI on macOS through
osascript, not Qt. They are now started withQT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen, which never registers with the Dock. Windows and Linux are unchanged.Verification
lsappinfolistsUTV.app/Contents/MacOS/py-interpas aForegroundapplication while the helper runs. SettingQT_MAC_DISABLE_FOREGROUND_APPLICATION_TRANSFORMdid not change that.--startupexits 0; with an older build it reaches the update prompt).🤖 Generated with Claude Code