Work-In-Progress recreation of the classic System Preferences to make Ventura not suck.
There are many ways to attempt to restoration of the classic System Preferences in Ventura; but all those methods are pretty jank, require too much work, or just won't work. For example:
- Port an old app bundle on System Preferences from an older OS install
- Use the NSPreferencePane API to wrap the old
.prefPanes(those also must be ported form an older OS)
In order to truly return the ways of old, someone must take it upon themselves to recreate the old. This is a long work in progress, the end goal being replication of classic System Preferences; excluding panes that require interfacing with your Apple ID due to limitations. Check out the completion checklist if you care.
Because some of us miss the ways of old (see new System Settings).
Until this is no longer a WIP, I'm not making any releases; but, you can build the project in Xcode if you want to use it in it's current state.
- Spotlight Search
- Localization
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Basic Navigation -
Sort panes -
Hide panes -
Menu bar stuff - Jump to pane from dock
- 3rd party panes
| Status | Pane(s) |
|---|---|
| ☑️ Almost Done, or Finished | General(Appearance) |
| 🛠️ WIP | All the rest (Dock & Menu Bar, Accessibillity, Displays, etc.) |
| ☠️ Dead until stated otherwise, just there for completion | Apple ID, Family Sharing, Screen Time, Time Machine, Startup Disk, Software Update |
| Note: Unsupported panes (excluding those there for completion) are disabled for now! |
If anyone wishes to contribute towards pane stuff or finds some problems, feel free to open an issue or PR. I will respond and evaluate propositions as quick as possible.
The app icon used by Legacy Preferences was designed by Apple, not I, and belongs to the native System Preferences/Settings app.
Also, if I mess up implementing some preference and wigs out, I hold not responsibility for bricking your machine or nuking your filesystem.
No one sue me, thanks.