Problem with Minimwatch after upgrading to Catalina

[simoncn]

I understand the issue of user-unfriendliness. There are a few factors that combine to cause this situation.

Apple is very aggressive in introducing new programming interfaces and packaging rules for applications and expects all application developers to move up to the new rules as soon as they are introduced. This is unlike almost every other platform where a new version will run older applications without causing problems for users.

MinimServer uses Java and Java tends to lag behind these changes imposed by Apple. In some cases, Java has never moved up and MinimServer has needed to compensate for the issues this causes.

MinimServer runs on a large number of platforms and there is a limit to how much time and effort I can put into keeping up with the continual changes that Apple imposes on its developers. If an Apple change breaks MinimServer completely, I will fix it with high priority. If an Apple change makes MinimServer a bit less convenient to install, improving this is somewhat lower priority compared with other work.

Apple users, more so than users on most other platforms, expect everything to "just work" in the most intuitive and simple way. For a Linux user, the Ctrl+click magic would hardly raise an eyebrow. For an Apple user, this is a big issue.