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'pseudo' is a 'secondary' app launcher with a gui for sudo
Authored by: zahadum on May 23, '07 10:19:24AM
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CLI can be an akward way to /manage/ launching apps ...

'pseudo' is a gui for running apps as root - it sits up in the systemenubar and has a dop down list of favorites/recent apps that have been launched as root.

this is a tremendously useful when apps hang in osx (which is a daily, in fact often it is a constant, occurance!! - grrrr) ... one doesnt have to go through the long painful process of logging in to another user profile (which can take 1-5 minutes! when the recalcitrant app starts to cascade through to the rest of the system) just in order to continue working with an app that is hanging!

btw: the info contained in this hint - the CLI version - tells a useful aspect NOT covered in pseudo - namely the ability to launch an app with any user's ACL permissions! ... i hope that brian hill adds this feature to pseudo! ...

MINI RANT: it's too bad that cocoa doesnt have an effective component model or a 'core plugin' API so that it was easier for third parties to extend an app! ... since most osx apps do not come with applescript, cocoa apps end up - IN PRACTICE - as having as brittle an object model as COM (activex) is for windoze! .... ah for the good old days when OpenDoc used IBM's SOM in order to support new methods at runtime without a recompile or more importantly without the need to expose source code (ie intellectual property) in order for third parties to make changes to an object!

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