plugin and services manager

[dc0dr]

What you are trying to do

hey!
I would like to know if you could include a launch services manager and a plugin manager just like in PearCleaner:

What would help

Peel will definitely help with just having one app to handle both uninstalling applications and managing launch agents

What you do instead

I use PearCleaner for managing plugins and launch agents

[TuguiDragos]

Hi, and thanks for the idea!

Good news: Peel already has both. They’re in the System group of the sidebar, which starts turned off so the sidebar stays short for people who don’t need it. To turn them on, open Settings > General > Sidebar, click Choose Tools…, and select Background Items and Plug-ins, as in the screenshot below.

Background Items lists launch agents and daemons, including the jobs apps register and loaded jobs with no file on disk, and names the app that added each one where Peel can tell. You can start, stop, enable or disable a job, or move its file to the Trash, and History can put it back.

Plug-ins lists what macOS loads from its plug-in folders: audio plug-ins and drivers (like the HAL ones in your screenshot), Quick Look, Spotlight, screen savers, input methods, and more. Nothing is deleted for good: each one goes to the Trash.

Both pages already have a few fixes waiting for the next update. Fonts aren’t on the list, since Font Book takes care of those.

Give them a try and let me know what’s missing or doesn’t work the way you’d expect. Your feedback really helps.

[dc0dr]

Wow, thank you for this!
I really appreciate the effort you put into this app. It has already succeeded PearCleaner for me at this point by just knowing this exists.
I will be looking forward to the upcoming updates.

If I may, concerning the launch agents and daemons section, could there be an indicator beside Not running to show that the agent or daemon has been loaded or unloaded?

And maybe in the near future, the ability to modify the configuration of custom launch agents directly? (basically editing the .plist file directly in Peel)

[TuguiDragos]

Hi again, both are done and will be in the next update, out tomorrow at the latest.

Beside Not running you now see whether launchd has the job loaded. Loaded means it is waiting for its time, and a disabled job shows Loaded or Not loaded too. A running job is always loaded, so it shows only Running.

You can also edit a job now. Open one of your own agents in Background Items and click Edit… next to its configuration file. Peel shows the .plist as text, and Save stays off until it is a valid property list with the same Label and a Program or ProgramArguments. When you save, the old file goes to the Trash, where History can put it back, and if the job was loaded Peel loads it again from the new file.

Editing is offered only for the agents in your own ~/Library/LaunchAgents. Agents and daemons in /Library run for every account or as root, and jobs inside an app belong to that app, so those stay as they are.

[TuguiDragos]

Peel 1.3.0 is out, and it has both things you asked for. Give it a try, and if anything feels off, open an issue and I will take a look :)

[dc0dr]

Hi! I tested it and everything works as expected!

Thank you so much for the updates!