[tor-bugs] #10483 [Tor bundles/installation]: Easy to add wrong component of TBB to Mac OS X dock

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#10483: Easy to add wrong component of TBB to Mac OS X dock
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 Reporter:  schoen                    |          Owner:  erinn
     Type:  enhancement               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:
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 In TBB, there are several different components, including
 TorBrowserBundle, Tor, Vidalia, and the TorBrowser.  The intended flow is
 for a user to launch TorBrowserBundle, which will then launch the other
 components.

 On Mac OS X, I saw a user open TorBrowserBundle correctly, and then try to
 save a shortcut in the Dock (the application launching area at the bottom
 of the screen).  Unfortunately, the only application that had a window
 open was the TorBrowser itself, not the bundle launcher.  Adding a
 shortcut for ''this'' to the Dock results in an icon called "TorBrowser".
 So far so good -- but trying to use this icon later on results in
 launching the browser in isolation without Vidalia or Tor, and errors
 about not being able to connect to Tor's SOCKS proxy.

 This is pretty easy to do because Mac OS users are used to the idea that
 they can pin applications in the Dock for quick access, and most
 applications have only a single candidate component that creates GUI
 objects.  I'm not sure what the right solution would be.  One possibility
 is to make the TorBrowser detect if it's being launched from outside of
 the bundle, and, if so, to exec the bundle launcher instead.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10483>
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