[MlMt] mailmate on the dock

[Robert Brenstein]

On 15.08.2016 at 15:01 Uhr -0400 Bill Cole apparently wrote:
>On 15 Aug 2016, at 9:40, Robert Brenstein wrote:
>
>>At first glance, it looks like the script that does the upgrade 
>>failed to remove the old icon from the dock.
>
>That's not how it works. Apps (and their installers) don't manage 
>their own icons in the Dock.
>
>The icon you see in the Dock is determined by Launch Services, a Mac 
>OS X subsystem that keeps track of file types and associated "kind" 
>strings, icons, URL scheme associations (and probably other details 
>that are slipping my mind...) for all apps. Launch Services is 
>essentially the MacOS X replacement for the Finder's "desktop" files 
>in classic MacOS. It has difficulties with edge cases like the 
>existence of multiple versions of an app in different places that 
>both are represented in metadata (Spotlight) indices. The most an 
>app installer can do is explicitly tell LS to register an app that 
>it has just installed, however it sometimes seems like LS doesn't do 
>as it is told. If I knew why this was, I'd be sending my resume to 
>Apple because no one there has been able to work it out for about a 
>decade...
>

I meant the script in the installer. I do realize that you did not 
write that code. Aynway, it is not a real issue. I reported it 
because this is the first time  ever I saw this but apparently I have 
only been lucky until now ;-)

Robert