{"id":39031,"date":"2023-04-11T21:54:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T01:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39031"},"modified":"2023-04-24T08:17:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:17:22","slug":"news-is-not-a-normal-mac-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/11\/news-is-not-a-normal-mac-app\/","title":{"rendered":"News Is Not a Normal Mac App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@lapcatsoftware\/109826830098744895\">Jeff Johnson<\/a> on the News app&rsquo;s Share menu:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@lapcatsoftware\/109826830098744895\"><p>This doesn&rsquo;t open in Safari but rather in my default web browser, which is Link Unshortener.<\/p><p>Any normal Mac app &mdash; including Link Unshortener &mdash; can call the API to determine which app is your default web browser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>They did restore the <strong>Open in Safari<\/strong> menu command, but it badly needs a keyboard shortcut. Both this command and the share menu say &ldquo;Safari,&rdquo; but they actually follow the <strong>Default web browser<\/strong> system setting. Ultimately, this is up to News, but why doesn&rsquo;t the system have a built-in sharing service with the proper icon, name, and behavior?<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@lapcatsoftware\/109826809186579240\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@lapcatsoftware\/109826809186579240\">\n<p>The Mac News app forgets my window size on every launch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>For me, sometimes it remembers the size and sometimes it forgets.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/12\/the-apple-services-experience-is-not-good-enough\/\">The Apple Services Experience Is Not Good Enough<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/10\/funneling-into-apple-news\/\">Funneling Into Apple News+<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/16\/catalyst-and-cohesion\/\">Catalyst and Cohesion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/14\/desktop-apps-post-catalyst\/\">Desktop Apps Post-Catalyst<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"news-is-not-a-normal-mac-app-update-2023-04-24\">Update (2023-04-24): <a href=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@lapcatsoftware\/110183429992780932\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@lapcatsoftware\/110183429992780932\">\n<p>News forgetting the window size is actually the bug I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/2023\/3\/3.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The irony is that I filed the bug against Monterey, but they wanted me to test the Ventura beta.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That seems reasonable to me if Apple can&rsquo;t reproduce the issue on the latest beta or if they actually think they have fixed it. The problem is that a lot of times these requests to re-test just seem to be someone trying to blindly close lots of bugs. Then it just waste&rsquo;s everyone&rsquo;s time to verify a bug that is not being worked on, anyway.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson on the News app&rsquo;s Share menu: This doesn&rsquo;t open in Safari but rather in my default web browser, which is Link Unshortener.Any normal Mac app &mdash; including Link Unshortener &mdash; can call the API to determine which app is your default web browser. They did restore the Open in Safari menu command, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-04-12T01:54:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"2e88d87c-96bf-4e05-a59d-29a701f9b9b5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-04-24T12:17:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ALojYfJa_TgWlnSmnAfm5tQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1223,131,1621,125,30,2077,2223,2109],"class_list":["post-39031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-news","tag-bug","tag-marzipan","tag-keyboardshortcuts","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-radar-and-feedback-assistant"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39144,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39031\/revisions\/39144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}