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[PATCH] Fix macOS dictation post NSTextInputClient migration in v30

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From: Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, alvaro <at> xenodium.com, 79070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kickingvegas <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#79070: [PATCH] Fix macOS dictation post NSTextInputClient migration in v30
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:24:48 -0400

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On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Ok to install, Eli?
> >
> > Maybe.  I'm not sure I understand what are the conclusions from your
> > experience, which eventually needed to use tcutil.  Are we sure this
> > is just a fluke and not a more fundamental problem?
>
> tccutil is a program that removes entries from a database containing
> application-specific privacy settings. For example, if an app wants to
> use the microphone or camera and such, it has to ask for permission, and
> the result of that lands in that TCC database. 'tcc reset' clears such
> entries.
>
> It's very possible that I denied Emacs access to the microphone in the
> past because I routinely do that :-). Also to the camera, of course, and
> such things. That may have been years ago, because I migrate my settings
> from machine to machine for a very long time. And if so, it would have
> been for a different dictation system because that whole thing changed
> some years ago, around macOS 14, not sure.
>
> Anyway, the current dictation system apparently doesn't require special
> privacy privileges, i.e. macOS doesn't ask for permission to use the
> microphone for the current incarnation of dictation. But dictation also
> doesn't work if one has "deny settings" in the TCC database. After
> clearing these entries in with `tccutil reset`, Emacs now works like any
> other app.
>
> So it seems at least. That's about what I can say.
>

So far, the patch does not work on macOS 12.7.6 (the only version I use
across my Intel Macs).  So something else is missing?

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