Automatically terminate login items moved to the trash

Originator:matt
Number:rdar://10809456 Date Originated:04-Feb-2012 02:13 PM
Status:Closed Resolved:18-Jun-2014 10:42 AM
Product:Mac OS X SDK Product Version:10.7.3
Classification:Enhancement Reproducible:
 
Summary:

When the user drags an application bundle to the trash that contains running login items registered with SMLoginItemSetEnabled, terminate those login items.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Start an application that registers a background login item through SMLoginItemSetEnabled
2. Enable the login item
3. Quit the parent application
4. Drag the parent application to the trash
5. Attempt to empty the trash

Expected Results:

The application is successfully removed.

Actual Results:

The application is only partially removed because the background login item is still running.

Notes:

An alternative is to prevent dragging the parent application to the trash if it has active login items, displaying a message to the user much like when an attempt is made to drag the parent application the trash while running.

Comments

Engineering has provided the following information:

We will not be further enhancing this API.

We are now closing this bug report.

By matt at June 18, 2014, 10:19 p.m. (reply...)

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