SwiftDefaultApps

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "ANNOUNCEMENT: I have recently noticed Apple has introduced replacements for the deprecated APIs used in this prefpane. As a result, slow as it may be, I plan to resume development. I will be taking PRs as well, if somebody wishes to contribute.\n========\n\nSwiftDefaultApps\n========\n\nThis Preference pane is chiefly intended to be a modern replacement for the amazing RCDefaultApp developed way back when by Carl Lindberg, which stopped working in 10.12 due to deprecation of ObjC Garbage collection.\nAdditionally, I guess it was a good way to teach myself Swift.\n\nFeel free to contribute, comment or report issues at https://github.com/Lord-Kamina/SwiftDefaultApps.\n\n## Installing \u0026 Uninstalling\n\n* Download latest release from https://github.com/Lord-Kamina/SwiftDefaultApps/releases\n* To install, double click on the `.prefpane`, and you will be prompted to install it.\n* To uninstall, simply Ctrl+Click on the Prefpane icon and remove it, or move the `.prefpane` file to the Trash.\n\n## Installting with brew\n\nRun:\n\n```bash\nbrew install swiftdefaultappsprefpane\n```\n\nthen use Spotlight to open the `SwiftDefaultApps.prefpane`. It will open the System Preferences and you find the app on the bottom of the icons.\n\n## How to use the \"Do Nothing\" app\n\nThe **Do Nothing** dummy app needs to be launched before you can use it in the pref pane. For this, open a terminal and run the following commands:\n\n```bash\nappDir=\"/Library/PreferencePanes/SwiftDefaultApps.prefPane/Contents/Resources/ThisAppDoesNothing.app\"\n\nif ! [[ -d \"$appDir\" ]]; then appDir=\"$HOME/$appDir\"; fi\n\n# Remove quanrantine flag\nxattr -d com.apple.quarantine \"$appDir\"\n# Open the app\nopen \"$appDir\"\n```\n\nAfter these 2 steps, the **Do Nothing** app should work when you pick it up.\n\n## Usage Notes\n\nThis Preference pane will let you view and change default application associations for basically any URI Scheme and/or filetype in macOS.\nThe user-interface should be pretty self-explanatory; but, there are some things that might require",
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  "one_liner": "System preference pane for changing default apps for file types and protocols on macOS.",
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  "why_use_this": "Modern replacement for the long-discontinued RCDefaultApps, written in Swift. Useful if you need fine-grained control over which app handles specific file types and URL schemes\u2014macOS\u0027s built-in defaults UI doesn\u0027t expose all options. Open-source and actively maintained again as of recent updates."
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