System Preferences-editing prefpane locations

paulpaul
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in macOS edited January 2014
As most of us here know-if you play around on your mac enough, eventually you will have a LOT of things in the "other" section of your System Preferences application...







I would like to organize some of these additions to other parts of the panel...



for example the Remote Desktop pane (which doesn't actually DO anything-more on that later) should belong in "Internet & Network" section and the Hardware pane (from the CHUD tools) belongs in the "Hardware" section...



does anyone know how to manually edit the locations of these items?

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    **ahem**

    brad, I'm looking in your direction ..
  • Reply 2 of 5
    agent macintoshagent macintosh Posts: 187member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Paul

    As most of us here know-if you play around on your mac enough, eventually you will have a LOT of things in the "other" section of your System Preferences application...







    I would like to organize some of these additions to other parts of the panel...



    for example the Remote Desktop pane (which doesn't actually DO anything-more on that later) should belong in "Internet & Network" section and the Hardware pane (from the CHUD tools) belongs in the "Hardware" section...



    does anyone know how to manually edit the locations of these items?



    Find System Prefs in your App folder. Choose "Show Package Contents" from the pop-up menu and open the folder "Contents." In the folder "Contents," open "Resources." Then, edit this file "NSPrefPaneGroups.plist"



    Done!
  • Reply 3 of 5
    airslufairsluf Posts: 1,861member
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  • Reply 4 of 5
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Agent Macintosh

    Find System Prefs in your App folder. Choose "Show Package Contents" from the pop-up menu and open the folder "Contents." In the folder "Contents," open "Resources." Then, edit this file "NSPrefPaneGroups.plist"



    Done!



    ok cool... just one more question... well two...



    where do I find the correct strings to use for the prefpanes in the "other" section?



    and



    where/how did you learn of this information? (for both the original and above questions--so I guess that would really mean three more)



    thanks
  • Reply 5 of 5
    ipeonipeon Posts: 1,122member
    Are you sure you want to be monkeying with the system?



    Haaaa, you'll find out sooner or later to leave well enough alone.
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