suppressing iLife 2011 “What’s new”

[Tim Sutton]

Is anyone using default prefs to suppress some of the iLife first run dialogs? With iPhoto as an example, this is what I used to use for iLife ’09:

com.apple.iPhoto.plist:
[code]

AskHotPlugAction

CheckForUpdates

GeocodeLookupPreference
2
dontShowWhatsNew
[/code]

Having had a look at what iPhoto in iLife ’11 sets up after a first run, I see that it creates the same key ‘dontShowWhatsNew’. But, despite it being there, the What’s New window shows up anyway. Same goes for all the other iApps in ’11. Anyone seeing this?

[Tim Sutton]

Ok, I found the culprit for iPhoto ’11. UpdateSplash and UpdateSplashOnline get set, setting the same real value of 9.1000003814697266. In fact, the info splash is suppressed if I remove UpdateSplash, leaving only UpdateSplashOnline.

dontShowWhatsNew seems to have changed from a bool to a string (it setting ‘NO’) if it doesn’t exist, doesn’t seem to change anything regardless. FirstLaunch doesn’t seem to control anything to do with the behaviour I’m trying to suppress.

I’ve whittled it down to the following to suppress pop-ups and dialogs:

[code]

AskHotPlugAction

GeocodeLookupPreference
2
UpdateSplashOnline
9.1000003814697266
[/code]

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