[GNC] GNUCash Version 3.6.1 not working on OSX.

[John Ralls]

Yes. App Store packages get way more scrutiny and must be sandboxed. Web downloaded programs get a warning dialog  that goes something like "You downloaded foo from the web on XXXX. Are you sure you want to run it? [OK] [Cancel][Go to web site]". That's separate from Gatekeeper verification.

Catalina is more paranoid still: Apple has added a notarization requirement. Un-notarized apps fail Gatekeeper and System Preferences' Security and Privacy tab has only two Gatekeeper radio buttons, App Store and App Store and identified developers. Notarizing involves uploading the signed app in a signed DMG to Apple where it gets some automated checks to ensure that the app is correctly signed. Apple registers its digital signature and issues an additional crypto certificate that gets attached to the app bundle.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Aug 9, 2019, at 8:55 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> Does that have anything to do with it being a web download instead of from the App Store?
> 
> Any app I download seems to have that problem, but none from the App Store. It may be just a quirk for some of us however.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>> On Aug 9, 2019, at 10:46 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> GnuCash is signed with an Apple certificate and beginning with the next release will be notarized as well, so it shouldn't need to be opened with a right click. The problem seems to be that there's something about the way Gatekeeper starts it after verifying that doesn't quite work so it needs to be restarted that one time.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
> 
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