System Settings: Is this the slowest app in Ventura?

[BrianBaughn]

I upgraded my 2008 Macbook Unibody to Ventura using OCLP and noticed in System Settings that switching between settings categories (or whatever they're supposed to be called) is extremely slow…several seconds.

Well…it's an unsupported 2008 machine and I get that but what I think is being amplified is the fact that System Settings lags. Using the app on my Mac Studio there's definitely a lag as compared to other features. If menus behaved like that we'd all be screaming.

I get the feeling that every setting is its own app and I'm waiting for it to start.

Also…defaulting to "Appearance", the eleventh item in the sidebar…and not even the first thing alphabetically, is just plain annoying.

 

[galad]

Yes, every section is its own app. And yes, it's slow anyway.

 

[rm5]

Even on my M1, it takes a good second sometimes for it to switch categories. It's awful. The categories make absolutely no sense to me—it's just a bad app.

 

[fisherking]

it would be great if we could choose what setting the app opens to. but it is not sluggish here, on either of my macs.

i don't agree that the 'categories make no sense', but... it's easy to use the app search window to find something. and once you find it, it will always be in that place 🤔

 

[bogdanw]

it would be great if we could choose what setting the app opens to.

Still not fixed? https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/open-system-settings-on-general-option.2378651/

 

[fisherking]

Still not fixed? https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/open-system-settings-on-general-option.2378651/

interesting what you suggested; does it work for you?

do shell script "open x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.systempreferences.GeneralSettings"

 

[bogdanw]

interesting what you suggested; does it work for you?

do shell script "open x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.systempreferences.GeneralSettings"

Yes, video in VM