Usability issues in OSX

[agzam]

Somehow in OSX - REBL does not act like an app - there's no Dock icon, it doesn't appear in the App switcher, it doesn't have its own menu, it works like a child window of whichever app it was spawned from - terminal, Emacs or other. Maybe that's the original intent - but that makes difficult to use it. There is no easy way to switch to it using keyboard.

Even though it works like a child window (of e.g. Terminal App) - you still cannot switch to it using standard shortcuts like "Move focus to next window"; It doesn't even appear in Mission Control's "Application Windows".

[stuarthalloway]

This may be tricky to improve. REBL is not an app, by design it runs in the same address space as the app that launches it.

[agzam]

But it still should be recognized as a child window of whichever "parent" app. "Move focus to next window" (usually Cmd+` ) should work, but it doesn't.

[imrekoszo]

Strangely enough I do have a dock icon and can Cmd+TAB to it. Cmd+` doesn't work but I guess this is due to what Stu commented. Hovering over the icon in the dock displays java.

Btw I'm launching it from Cursive as described here.

[agzam]

@imrekoszo because by default some JVM processes do add an icon to the dock and the app switcher. That was an annoying surprise for me the first time I tried boot-clj. For some reason lein wouldn't do it, but boot did. I had to set JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-Dapple.awt.UIElement=true to get rid of it.
That explains why I don't see dock icon for REBL either.

But still, REBL's window acts like a tool palette in Photoshop - it's a window, but it doesn't have its own descriptor, or whatever that is called. So it's not considered as "application window" to the parent app, it doesn't appear in mission control, you can't switch to it with Cmd+` . I think that's not right and should be fixed.