#Gtk xamarin studio for mac#

CFBundleIconFile The icon of your app bundle, shown in Finder and the Dock. Shell script to run your real executable using Mono. The one you need to change are: CFBundleExecutable The name of the executable within the Contents/MacOS subdirectory of yourīundle that Launch Services will run when opening your app. This is just a subset of the keys you can set, but they’re the important CFBundleDevelopmentRegion English CFBundleExecutable monodoc CFBundleIconFile monodoc.icns CFBundleIdentifier CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion 6.0 CFBundleName MonoDoc CFBundlePackageType APPL CFBundleShortVersionString 2.2 CFBundleSignature xmmd CFBundleVersion 2.2 NSAppleScriptEnabled NO Īs you can see, it simply contains key/value pairs to set properties of the appīundle. A plist (“property list”) is an Apple structured data format thatĬan be represented in binary or xml formats. Lives in the Contents subdirectory of your app bundle, and describes theĪpplication. The most important part of the app bundle is the ist manifest, which Look inside an app bundle, use the context menu on the bundle in Finder. The system’s Applications folder, and to “uninstall”, it’s simply deleted. “installed” as such, but can simply kept wherever the user wants, typically in Self-contained application that can be run directly. The Mac GUI shell treats this folder as a app extension that contains anĪpplication and everything it needs. If you’re not a Mac developer, you might be wondering exactly what an app bundle

That your app integrates with the main menu and dock. This first part will cover building an appīundle, and a later post will cover building platform-specific code paths so Who’s built a GTK# app on Windows or Linux can provide a nice self-contained MacĪpp bundle for their Mac users.

#Gtk xamarin studio for mac#

While making the MonoDevelop and MonoDoc packages for Mac I learned a few thingsĪbout adapting GTK# apps for Mac, and I’d like to share them so that anyone else