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App Preferences Not Accessible Upon First Run

Open tristinDLC opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

After initial install and when you run the app for the first time, you cannot access the app preferences via the menu bar link nor via the keyboard shortcut. While that wouldn't be a huge deal, AutoRaise is not enabled by default upon initial installation so the app does not function at all. You must quit the app after enabling Accessibility access and then you can reach Preferences to turn on and configure the app

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Unpack .dmg file
  2. Drag AutoRaise.app to /Applications (or whatever your destination folder is)
  3. Open AutoRaise.app
  4. Enable Accessibility access via System Preferences
  5. Click on menubar icon
  6. Click on Preferences link (or try using the keyboard shortcut ⌘ + ,)

Expected behavior The preferences link (and keyboard shortcut) should be immediately clickable to enable and configure the settings.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

  • OS: macOS 12.5
  • CPU: M1 Max
  • Version v0.6.2b

Additional context If it's not just a bug in general, I'd recommend creating a popup notifying the user that a restart of the app is required after enabling Accessibility access to be able to use it. You can then give them the choice to restart the app now or cancel to restart later. I've seen many apps go this route upon installation and first run.

tristinDLC avatar Jul 29 '22 14:07 tristinDLC

@Spartinus thank you for your feature request. I added it to my todo list.

synappser avatar Jun 14 '23 10:06 synappser