Show "Spyder" instead of "python" in macOS menubar

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Problem Description

The menubar on macOS shows “python” instead of “Spyder”.

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Start Spyder on macOS.
2. Observe the app name in the menubar.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The name should be “Spyder” and not “python”.

Proposed solution

The app name can be set with pyobj-framework-cocoa. Here’s an example how I did it: https://github.com/cbrnr/mnelab/blob/master/mnelab/__main__.py#L16-L28

However, I’m not sure if Spyder already has other ways to set the name and if it’s just broken on my machine. Let me know if you’d like me to submit a PR.

Versions

• Spyder version: 4.2.0
• Python version: 3.8.6
• Qt version: 5.12.9
• PyQt version: 5.12.3
• Operating System name/version: macOS Big Sur

Dependencies

``` # Mandatory: applaunchservices >=0.1.7 : 0.2.1 (OK) atomicwrites >=1.2.0 : 1.4.0 (OK) chardet >=2.0.0 : 3.0.4 (OK) cloudpickle >=0.5.0 : 1.6.0 (OK) diff_match_patch >=20181111 : 20200713 (OK) intervaltree >=3.0.2 : 3.0.2 (OK) IPython >=4.0 : 7.19.0 (OK) jedi =0.17.2 : 0.17.2 (OK) jsonschema >=3.2.0 : 3.2.0 (OK) nbconvert >=4.0 : 6.0.7 (OK) numpydoc >=0.6.0 : 1.1.0 (OK) parso =0.7.0 : 0.7.0 (OK) pexpect >=4.4.0 : 4.8.0 (OK) pickleshare >=0.4 : 0.7.5 (OK) psutil >=5.3 : 5.7.3 (OK) pygments >=2.0 : 2.7.3 (OK) pylint >=1.0 : 2.6.0 (OK) pyls >=0.36.1;<1.0.0 : 0.36.1 (OK) pyls_black >=0.4.6 : 0.4.6 (OK) pyls_spyder >=0.1.1 : 0.2.1 (OK) qdarkstyle >=2.8 : 2.8.1 (OK) qtawesome >=0.5.7 : 1.0.2 (OK) qtconsole >=4.7.7 : 5.0.1 (OK) qtpy >=1.5.0 : 1.9.0 (OK) rtree >=0.8.3 : 0.9.4 (OK) setuptools >=39.0.0 : 49.6.0.post20201009 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 3.3.1 (OK) spyder_kernels >=1.10.0;<1.11.0 : 1.10.0 (OK) three_merge >=0.1.1 : 0.1.1 (OK) watchdog >=0.10.3 : 1.0.1 (OK) zmq >=17 : 20.0.0 (OK)

Optional:

cython >=0.21 : None (NOK) matplotlib >=2.0.0 : None (NOK) numpy >=1.7 : None (NOK) pandas >=1.1.1 : None (NOK) scipy >=0.17.0 : None (NOK) sympy >=0.7.3 : None (NOK)

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[ccordoba12]

Thanks for the suggestion @cbrnr! We’ll do it for our 4.2.2 version (to be released in two months).

[cbrnr]

I’m closing this because the recommended way to install Spyder is to use the standalone installers, where this works out of the box. My workaround is also just a hack.