Note: About injection mechanism of EasySIMBL extended from SIMBL-0.9.9

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Note: About injection mechanism of EasySIMBL extended from SIMBL-0.9.9

Inject into processes launched before launching SIMBL Agent.app

Since EasySIMBL-1.0

Application resume on login happen before launching original SIMBL Agent.app. On launching, EasySIMBL's SIMBL Agent.app find target apps from already launched apps, and inject into it.

Inject into Background/Agent applications

Since EasySIMBL-1.6

Until EasySIMBL-1.5.1, SIMBL Agent.app was observing Regular applications launching except Background/Agent applications. This behavior came from original SIMBL v0.9.9.

On EasySIMBL-1.6, SIMBL Agent.app has been changed to observing applications launching all Regular, Background and Agent applications. It makes EasySIMBL can inject some plugins into some Background or Agent applications. e.g. com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService, com.apple.security.pboxd.

For supporting them, EasySIMBL will inject plugins as following:

• Plugins which specified "*" in SIMBLTargetApplications will be injected into all non Background/Agent applications.
• Plugins which specified explicitly target bundle identifier in SIMBLTargetApplications will be injected into target application whether Background/Agent or not.
• Plugins specified both "*" and explicitly target bundle identifier in SIMBLTargetApplications will be injected into target whether application is Background/Agent or not, and will be injected into all non Background/Agent applications.

Safari: "com.apple.Safari" is regular application

SIMBLTargetApplications	Safari	com.apple.security.pboxd
"*"	Yes	No
"com.apple.security.pboxd"	No	Yes
"*" and "com.apple.security.pboxd"	Yes	Yes

As far as I know, ColofulSidebar uses this mechanism.