ZacOS 9 v1.15.0

See the changelog.

ZacOS 9 v1.14.3

Disks no longer hide under a desktop file.

A disk and a file could both remember the same place on the desktop, and
the file was drawn over the disk, so the disk looked missing. A disk whose
remembered place overlaps another icon now takes a free place instead.

The startup disk and the Trash keep their places, and files are never
moved.

ZacOS 9 v1.14.2

ZacOS 9 now states what it has always done: it does not track you.

A new Privacy page in ZacOS Help, and PRIVACY.md in the source, promise no
telemetry, analytics, online account, advertising ID, device fingerprint
or first-party server. They list every network connection ZacOS makes and
what it sends — Software Update, Software, Web search, local network
browsing and the services you choose.

A new test fails if a known tracking or analytics endpoint appears, or if
the update, Software or web-search code contacts an address the policy does
not list.

ZacOS 9 v1.14.1

Disks mounted from /etc/fstab now appear on the desktop.

An internal data disk added after installation is mounted by the system,
but GIO never reports it as a volume, so the Finder had no icon for it.
The Finder now finds those mounted block devices itself and shows each
one under its volume label — for example, ZacData for /mnt/data.

The disk is not ejectable and opens like any other disk icon.

ZacOS 9 v1.14.0

The standard application shortcuts now work in every program.

⌘Q quits the program in front, closing all its windows so it can ask
about unsaved work; it exits as the last one closes. ⌘H hides the
program and hands the keyboard to the one behind it, and ⌘M collapses
or expands the front window. The control panels had no Quit command of
their own, so ⌘Q did nothing there before.

The Sniffer keeps ⌘H and ⌘M for its File menu — Search Internet and
Make Alias — and is never quit, as the Mac's Finder wasn't.

ZacOS 9 v1.13.0

Bloodhound (Search) now searches as you type when Live Search is on.

Turn on Live Search in the criteria row and the search starts after a
pause, while the Search button and Return still work. Recents… brings
back a recent search, and Clear Recent Searches empties the list.

The Index menu reports what the contents index has, adds or removes a
folder, and rebuilds the index. Drop a folder on the window to search it;
drop a search-site file to add it to the Web and user channels.

Preview shows the selected result's icon, kind, size, date and path in a
pane below the list; click Preview again to put it away. Bloodhound
remembers whether Live Search was on and which channel was open.

ZacOS 9 v1.12.0

Bloodhound (Search), Sherlock's search dog, now has the whole Find engine
and channels.

The Files channel adds More Choices criteria (dates, size, kind, label,
lock, comments, version and more), contents search through the index with
highlighted snippets and Index Selection, Find Similar Items, and saved
searches shared with the Sniffer's Find.

The Web channel and user channels search with DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing or
any site you add to System Folder ▸ Internet Search Sites or
~/.config/zacos9/Internet Search Sites. The Sniffer's File ▸ Search
Internet uses the same sites.

The app is called Bloodhound (Search) in Applications and the Zac menu, so
its purpose is clear; an older Bloodhound menu alias is renamed.

ZacOS 9 v1.11.0

Bloodhound, Sherlock's search dog, now has its own program.

Open it from the Zac menu or the Applications folder. Type part of a name,
choose all disks or your Home folder, and press Search. Results show where
each file is, when it changed, its size and kind. Open, Reveal and Get Info
work on a result, Copy Path puts its path on the clipboard, and a result can
be dragged out of the list. Escape stops a search, ⌘R reveals a result and
⌘I gets its information.

Bloodhound 1.0 searches names. More Choices, contents and saved searches stay
in the Sniffer's File ▸ Find… for now; both use the same search engine.
Criteria, contents and the Internet channels are next.

ZacOS 9 v1.10.0

See the changelog.

ZacOS 9 1.9.8

The Finder's permission-specific tests now account for running as root, so the ISO build's package tests complete. The startup disk's read-only state is checked by mode, and locked-Trash and unreadable-file scenarios skip under root.