feat(macos): Typeless-style permission onboarding#4
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Rework the first-run permission step so it stops treating screen recording like the other two permissions. Screen recording is the only one that needs an app restart to take effect (CGPreflight caches the old value) and the only one that's optional (microphone-only mode covers the rest), yet it was required and shown identically — users granted it, returned, saw a red X, and got stuck. - Microphone + speech recognition are required (standard prompts, instant); onboarding proceeds once those two are granted - Screen recording is marked Recommended/optional with a muted icon; skipping it falls back to microphone-only capture - After requesting screen recording, show a 'Restart to apply' button that relaunches the app, instead of a permanently-red row - requiredPermissionsGranted gates progress on the two essential permissions Why not just copy Typeless: it only needs the microphone, so its flow is trivially clean. LCT must capture system audio, which on macOS requires the restart-prone screen-recording permission — so the fix is making that one permission's guidance honest, not hiding it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
The first-run permission step treated all three permissions identically, but screen recording is special on macOS: it's the only one that needs an app restart to take effect (
CGPreflightcaches the stale value) and the only one that's optional (microphone-only mode covers the rest). Users granted it, came back, saw a red ✗, and got stuck — the "ugly" flow.Change
requiredPermissionsGrantedgates progress on the two essential permissions only.Why not just copy Typeless
Typeless only needs the microphone, so its flow is trivially clean. LCT must capture system audio, which on macOS requires the restart-prone screen-recording permission. The fix is making that permission's guidance honest (optional + restart prompt), not hiding it.
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