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Remove items and/or shortcut keys from the Services menu
Authored by: smorr on Mar 06, '03 12:06:23PM

You would think that someone would be clever enough to write an app or haxie that would allow us to manage that menu in a way that it can dis/activate, reassign key equivalents or even activate different services according to which application is in the foreground or user is logged in.

For example, If I have my "open URL in Safari" set as command Option L in most apps, I may want to have it set as Command Option Control L in a specific app if it conflicts with another key command. I know this some what against consistency of user interface but it would be something consciously managed by the user in question.

What kind of talent would it take to create such an App?



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Remove items and/or shortcut keys from the Services menu
Authored by: hibou on Mar 06, '03 02:47:14PM

have you emailed Unsanity? sounds like their kind of project.



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Remove items and/or shortcut keys from the Services menu
Authored by: bluehz on Mar 07, '03 05:58:45PM

PLEASE don't get Unsanity involved. They will slap Application Enhancer (APE) on it then tell you its not APE when your machine becomes unstable. Gosh - what do all those "Thread 0 Crashed... APE" entries in the crash logs mean. Uhhhh... you're right Unsanity... APE is innocuous...

...sorry... you hit a tender spot bringing up Unsanity....



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It's been done
Authored by: strider72 on Dec 06, '05 07:20:32AM
This has been done, though it seems the author made one beta and never went further. Nonetheless, I've used this and it seems to work well. Check out blacktree.com for the "Service Manager" preference pane.

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Remove items and/or shortcut keys from the Services menu
Authored by: zo219 on Jul 24, '08 11:39:26PM

I guess it would take the talents of Peter Maurer of manytricks.com ... who wrote Service Scrubber.

And BTW, see his warning/explanation: as of 10.5, signed apps can't be "scrubbed." Be careful out there.



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