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Directly access System Preference panes in the Dock
Authored by: osxpounder on Sep 30, '08 02:57:15PM

This could be very useful to me -- thanks! -- but the prefpanes I most want (default Apple ones like Sound and Keyboard & Mouse) don't appear in either of the places you mentioned, nor do they show up in a Spotlight search.

Could it be they are hidden files? I enabled display of hidden files (via Invisibility Toggler), but they still don't appear in those locations, nor a search, with or without an initial dot before the name "Sound.prefpane", for example.



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Directly access System Preference panes in the Dock
Authored by: osxpounder on Sep 30, '08 02:58:21PM

BTW, that's on a 10.4.11 MacBook Pro.



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Directly access System Preference panes in the Dock
Authored by: osxpounder on Sep 30, '08 03:01:49PM

Oops, please disregard my previous posts here. I just realized I was not looking in the "System" folder. I tried /Library/PreferencePanes.

I found them all. Pardon my error. It was asmeurer's comment about Quicksilver that helped me. I realized Butler would open Sound, and sure enough, Butler also shows the path, too.

Awesome hint! I'll use it with DragThing.



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Directly access System Preference panes in the Dock
Authored by: asmeurer on Oct 03, '08 11:13:19PM

Glad I could help, if even so indirectly.



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Directly access System Preference panes in the Dock
Authored by: sipatel on Oct 09, '08 10:10:03PM

Just copy to whole Preference Panes folder to the right/bottom section of the Dock and they're all there.

I've got my Applications, Utilities, Downloads, Fonts, Pref Panes, Documents and other folders I need to access quickly all living nicely in that bit of the Dock.

Who needs a separate App launcher?!



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