Subject: Re: bug#37551: [PATCH]: Update privacy usage descriptions for macOS 10.15 Catalina (nextstep)

From: Alan Third <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 17:48:59 +0100

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 11:21:05AM +0100, Artyom Loenko via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> Apple has updated requirements related to privacy on macOS Catalina.
> Now we have to specify usage descriptions for the following items to
> be able to access these folders and volumes:
> 
> - NSDesktopFolderUsageDescription;
> - NSDocumentsFolderUsageDescription;
> - NSDownloadsFolderUsageDescription;
> - NSRemovableVolumesUsageDescription.
> 
> (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/)
> 
> Otherwise, it is impossible to work with files in these folders
> (especially, when Desktop and Documents are synchronised with
> iCloud). Full Disk Access permission does not help in this case. The
> only workaround right now is to run Emacs from Terminal.app to
> inherit Terminal.app permissions.

Thanks for this.

I certainly confirm that the changes don’t break Emacs on macOS 10.14,
but not much else. :)

Artem, have you ever contributed to Emacs before? If so have you
signed the copyright assignment paperwork?

-- 
Alan Third