I found another thing in Builds 10A96 and 10A190 which changed for both 10.5.8 and 10.6.0–10.6.8:
The
Keyboard.prefPane in 10A96/10A190 is set up much the same way as what’s found in 10.5.3 (and probably 10.5.4, given the window of when those updates went public). This means
Keyboard.prefPane in 10A96/10A190 handles not only the keyboard configuration, but also mouse configuration
and trackpad configuration.
By 10.5.8, the
Keyboard.prefPane had changed, with trackpad configuration removed and spun off to its own prefPane called
Trackpad.prefPane. The configuration options in
Trackpad.prefPane are no different than the Trackpad tab in the old
Keyboard.prefPane.
By 10.6.8, the
Keyboard prefPane was split again, with
Keyboard.prefPane handling keyboard configuration;
Trackpad.prefPane handling trackpad configuration; and
Mouse.prefPane appearing whenever a mouse is connected. This was probably easier than having one prefPane playing musical tabs depending on system configuration, as plenty of Macs lacked a trackpad by default, while others lacked a mouse. Plus, added features with the forthcoming wireless peripherals might have made an all-in-one
Keyboard.prefPane pretty unwieldy.
So, for the sake of it, I went ahead and brought over both the
Keyboard.prefPane and
Trackpad.prefPane from 10.5.8 into Build 10A96, and disabled the 10A96
Keyboard.prefPane. If one looks at the
version.plist files within these prefPanes, all of them show “version 4.5”, but the
SourceVersion tag for these are different. For the 10.5.8 prefPanes, they are SourceVersion
1021000; for Builds 10A96 and 10A190 prefPane, it is SourceVersion
1050000.
For this new, split-prefPane setup to work properly, one more item requires backporting to the 10.5.8 version.
In 10A96/10A190, you will need to disable /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/
MachineSettings.framework in Build 10A96/10A190. Then, copy over the same private framework from 10.5.8. Once this version is moved into place,
Trackpad.prefPane should work, as should
Keyboard.prefPane (with Keyboard & Mouse tabs no longer showing an option for Trackpad).
But there’s one more thing:
If you’ve done all of the above and everything loads, you may notice that
Trackpad.prefPane isn’t located under the Hardware section, but under the Other section.
System Preferences.app needs to know about the Trackpad.prefPane in order to categorize it correctly.
To do this, open package contents of
System Preferences.app/Contents/Resources and locate the
NSPrefPaneGroups.xml file. Look for the section titled
<string>hardware</string>. Insert a line in that list which reads “
<string>com.apple.preference.trackpad</string>”. Save that xml file, and this will relocate Trackpad to the proper location.
With these tweaks, along with the appended UI tweaks in post
#1092 (the one right before this post), my test Mac running Build 10A96 now appears with the following:
In short, this is making the system look and feel more like a finished build of Snow Leopard. It’s superficial, but nevertheless refreshing.
