Preview.app missing from KM's Applications Palette

Questions & Suggestions
1

macOS Sequoia 15.5
KM 11.0.4

After enabling KM's Applications Palette, I found that Preview.app was missing from the palette.

Preview is active; it has an icon with a black dot in the Dock, and it is accessible via macOS' Application Switcher.

Preview is not present in KM's Preferences: Excluded pane; actually, no applications are present in it.

What do I need to do so that Preview's icon is included in KM's Applications Palette?

Thanks in advance!

2

The following AppleScript script launches Preview, but Preview's icon still does not display in KM's Applications palette.

tell application "Preview"
activate
end tell

3

Problem solved (at least temporarily) by quitting and relaunching Preview.

:thinking:

4

I believe there are ways for Preview to appear to be running, but not actually be running, but I'm not really sure. It seems pretty rare.

5

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your posting.

My scenario was the opposite; Preview was running and was present in the Dock, but appeared not to be running as indicated by its absence from KM’s Applications Palette.

Barry

6

Yes - it is likely it was technically not running, but the system was pretending it was running, and thus the system knew to pretend its icon in the Dock, but the normal APIs don't show the running process.