Re: place a LaunchAgent on the filesystem, but prevent it from loading unless a boolean key is True
Re: place a LaunchAgent on the filesystem, but prevent it from loading unless a boolean key is True
- Subject: Re: place a LaunchAgent on the filesystem, but prevent it from loading unless a boolean key is True
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:12:59 +0100
When and how are the subscribers supposed to choose whether the menu
item should be visible?
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Allen Hancock - Watchman Monitoring
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> We're preparing to release an option SupportMenu item, managed via
> /Library/LaunchAgent. It'll be enabled for a computer, or disabled, as our
> Subscriber chooses.
>
>
>
> Im trying to figure … what's the less of all evils:
>
> - Distributing the LaunchAgent as Disabled, then having the postflight set
> the Disabled key to False as required.
>
> or
>
> - omitting it from the BOM and having the postflight copy it into place as
> required.
>
>
> It's not the worst abuse of the "package, don't write" guideline, but still,
> if I can avoid it, I'd like to.
>
>
> Is there another option, outside of having two versions of the installer?
>
>
> I suppose I could have the Menu Item look for a key, and launchctl unload
> itself , but then the app opens for a moment at every login.. seems worst of
> all these options….
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any options I'm not seeing.
>
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