[Development] RFC: QProcess variant or separate class for launching applications "GUI-style"

[Sorvig Morten]

> On 07 Jan 2016, at 10:04, René J. V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Right. You should open the bundle, not the executable inside it. That's not a
>> problem of QProcess, you just ran the wrong thing.
> 
> It's a little bit more subtle than that, and if you look at qprocess_unix.cpp 
> you'll see a bit of code that does the opposite when it encounters an app 
> bundle.
> 
> But what you're basically saying is that if QProcess cannot do the job for us, 
> we just have to use something other than Qt?

One alternative could be to branch out from cross-paltform code and just
call the native API, which will do exactly what you want. Recent versions
of Qt makes this easier on OS X, we’ve for example added QString:toNSString()
and QUrl::toNSURL() for data conversion.

Another point: Isn't there a fundamental incompatibiity between LaunchServices
and QProcess? LanchServices may ‘activate’ an already running process, while
QProcess always starts a new process.

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