An individual window would have completely destroyed the point.
The point was to make you aware of what permissions the applications you use require access to.
And to get explicit permission from the user.
The point was to make you aware of what permissions the applications you use require access to.
And to get explicit permission from the user.
Hardly. Apple could have used the OSX installer to scan two or three common locations for applications and do a bit of static analysis. Apple could have put the permissions notifications in the notification center with an annoying nag screen every hour or two for the first ~30 days turning into an immediate prompt after that (or after all detected programs have been processed).
It will just know that the program will open a file of some kind, not the location of said file.
Indeed, almost as bad as popping up countless dialogs per application.
So what's the point then? To inflict more pain?
It shows it at the point of access request. If 2 programs request access 5 minutes apart, how would you show that in a single window?
Do you suspend the first program and wait until another application makes an access request? What happens if another doesn't make a request in a given time period? Will the user wonder why the first application has stopped doing anything useful for 5 minutes?
Honestly, how would you show this in a single window?
Individual popups don't completely solve this, but it makes more obvious that a specific application is requesting a large amount of permissions. They're a bit more digestible to the crowd that won't bother to read an alert longer than one line.