Re: Enabling an app in Simple Finder for users' after install
Re: Enabling an app in Simple Finder for users' after install
- Subject: Re: Enabling an app in Simple Finder for users' after install
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 08:28:26 +0200
On mardi, juin 28, 2005, at 04:07 AM, Murray Peters wrote:
Hi Folks,
Just got back from WWDC.
The 2004 or 2005 one? :)
I got a chance to meet some of the installer team and posed a
question I've been curious about for a while. They said that it's not
supported in by the pkg/installer tools, but suggested I subscribe to
this list and post the question - hopefully some of you may have
tackled this already.
In a nutshell, I need to create a package that when deployed through a
deployment tool (such as ARD, but our software does this too) can have
the applications run icon added to the Applications folder of all
users of the machine set up with Simple Finder. This is kind of an
extension to the need to be able to add an application to the dock
(system or nominated user), but in this case it's a Simple Finder
scenario.
When chatting to the installer team we talked about writing post
flight shell or applescripts to update dock plist files, but that
seems to be susceptible to different versions of OS X.
This is certainly possible with a postflight script. I would not go
with a full shell or applescript solution but use an additional binary.
As this would allow to use the Open Directory API to get the list of
users and their Home folder location and to use CoreFoundation or
Foundation API to work with the Property List files that are probably
being used (and since Apple is moving to Binary plist, I have some
doubt it's possible to edit them from a shell script).
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