{"id":26400,"date":"2019-08-28T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26400"},"modified":"2019-08-30T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T21:15:29","slug":"preference-panes-and-catalina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/preference-panes-and-catalina\/","title":{"rendered":"Preference Panes and Catalina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noodlesoft.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/preference-panes-and-catalina\/\">Paul Kim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.noodlesoft.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/preference-panes-and-catalina\/\">\n<p>System Preferences has had a major change: preference panes now load in a separate process. Apple ones get their own while all the third party ones get stuck in a process called &ldquo;legacyLoader (System Preferences)&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The other problem is that magenta. What is that? Apparently, it&rsquo;s a security feature. Any windows besides the main preference window will have their transparent areas colored magenta. I&rsquo;ve been trying to pin down the rules as to when this occurs but it&rsquo;s been slow going and also the screenshot above contradicts what I&rsquo;ve been told. Note that my software is notarized so it&rsquo;s not like this is only applying to unknown software.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>To top this all off: none of this has been announced or documented. I&rsquo;ve only found out about this through backchannels and then later, via a &ldquo;conversation&rdquo; via Feedback Assistant (FB6758586).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The lack of documentation makes it take longer to find out about and adapt to these types of changes. It also adds a layer of uncertainty: it&rsquo;s not clear how things are intended to work, so weird behavior that you see could be by design or something that&rsquo;s in the process of being fixed or an unknown bug.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/annoying-catalina-security-features\/\">Annoying Catalina Security Features<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"preference-panes-and-catalina-update-2019-08-30\">Update (2019-08-30): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mr_Noodle\/status\/1167435128685117440\">Paul Kim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mr_Noodle\/status\/1167435128685117440\"><p>Paraphrased response from Apple regarding my pref pane dark mode bug which you can replicate with a newly created project in Xcode with no added code: &ldquo;Here are some things to check in your code, oh, and could you provide a sample project?&rdquo;<\/p><p>What deeply worries me is that they apparently aren&rsquo;t QA-ing with third party panes since an empty pane is the most basic thing you can have.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kim: System Preferences has had a major change: preference panes now load in a separate process. Apple ones get their own while all the third party ones get stuck in a process called &ldquo;legacyLoader (System Preferences)&rdquo;. [&#8230;] The other problem is that magenta. What is that? Apparently, it&rsquo;s a security feature. 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