Greetings Hackers - I'm enjoying compose a ton so far coming from Swing. It's sweet! I have a mac and windows-only app right now. Happy to send some beer/wine/tequila 🍺 cash if anyone can provide just a little guidance. I'm stuck here. I'm pretty new to MacOS. I'm only playing in Intelli-J so far, but happy to fire up XCode if needed.

Can't help with the text portion, but I wrote a prototype of updating the dock using Compose. It supports updating the dock icon as the app runs. http://github.com/LandryNorris/ComposeMacosDock

You can ask in #compose-desktop too

according to the docs,

compose.desktop {
    application {
        nativeDistributions {
            macOS {
                dockName = "..."
                iconFile.set(...)
            }
        }
    }
}

Holy community 🦇man! Wow. THANK YOU from Florida USA!

can't really help much more since I don't use macos, but check if it's in the app's

Info.plist

, and for further help check with #compose-desktop as suggested earlier

Make sure you're building with

runDistributable

(or

runReleaseDistributable

) and not just

run

. The menu name is only configured in distributable builds.

@Jeff Lockhart well that's forward progress! Not the

launch.icns

I was pointing to:

macOS {
    bundleID = packageName
    val iconsRoot = project.file("src/main/resources/")
    iconFile.set(iconsRoot.resolve("launch.icns"))
    targetFormats(TargetFormat.Dmg)
    this.packageName = "LaunchPad"
    dockName = "LaunchPad"
    setDockNameSameAsPackageName = true
    dmgPackageVersion = appVersion
    pkgPackageVersion = appVersion
}

But even this beats the generic java icon, lol!

I wish I could combine gradle's

runRelease

&

runDistributable

There is

runReleaseDistributable

, which should do this.

yeah that bad boy (

runReleaseDistributable

) dies on proguard for me. I need to dive into proguard. The proguard stdout/stderr is rough: 642 warnings, 1 error, but I can't find the error (the error log file is empty, and can't see it in stdout). Does

runReleaseDistributable

create a dmg? I'm guessing not. Example proguard warning:

kotlinx.datetime.serializers.DateBasedDateTimeUnitSerializer: can't find superclass or interface kotlinx.serialization.internal.AbstractPolymorphicSerializer

If you don't want to mess with proguard and don't need it, you can disable it:

compose.desktop {
    application {
        buildTypes.release.proguard.isEnabled = false
    }
}