I love the new Preferences Pane. I think lots of users like having a place where they can easily remove MacFUSE or update to a new version.
However, I am sure there are quite a number of users out there, like Nagoya, who are confused when a new pane shows up for some framework they had no idea they installed and never make the connection it is something required by an application like Parallels. I'm sure some of those users will remove MacFUSE because they don't know how/why it got there, and things will break. On one hand, it should be the responsibility of the application which installs MacFUSE would let the user know that this framework is being installed and maybe even of an associated preference pane]. Realistically, there are quite a variety of applications that want to install silently MacFUSE as part of an integrated package and not explicitly notify the user about the framework and Pref Pane. There are also many novice users out there who will not understand MacFUSE and the dependency even if briefly notified about it. Perhaps at some point in the future it would be worth considering extending the Pref Pane to allow users a way to know why or how it got there. Maybe create a macFUSE plist in preferences which contains a dictionary that applications can insert references to themselves as consumers of MacFUSE. The preferences pane could parse this list, see who still exists [purge the others] and then display in a small list view the applications registered along with some text like "MacFUSE is used by these applications - removing it may cause them to no longer function correctly." Alternatively, perhaps there should be a mechanism to forgo the installation of the pane - but I'm less excited by that option. Jeff On Dec 27, 3:37 pm, Nagoya <[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed a network drive icon and the word macfuse in my Mac > preferences window. What is this and how did I get it? I recently > ugraded to Leopard, upgraded parallels to the latest version and > upgraded Pathfinder (finder replacement utility) and added Phoenix > Stellar Data recovery program. Did Macfuse come with any of these? > > DO I need it and is it safe to remove? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
