Adding Panes to System Preferences
Preference panes are really just slimmed-down Mac OS X applications,
and as such, can be installed from a source disk (or a freshly
downloaded disk image) to your local hard drive with a simple
drag-and-drop procedure (see Chapter 6). They can
even be launched like other applications; double-clicking a
.prefPane
file’s icon while in
the Finder causes it to open within System Preferences (launching that
application first, if it wasn’t already running).
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