MenuWish

Make your Finder right-click as you wish.

A lightweight macOS extension for New Text, Terminal & Copy Path.

中文：轻量开源的 Mac Finder 菜单增强：新建文本、进入终端、拷贝路径。

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Why MenuWish?

Finder does not include a direct New Text File action in its context menu, while opening the current folder in Terminal or copying a full path often takes extra steps. MenuWish adds these focused shortcuts directly to the macOS Finder right-click menu through a native Finder Sync extension.

Features

MenuWish keeps the Finder context menu focused on three everyday actions:

• New Text: create an empty Untitled.txt in the current Finder folder. Duplicate names are numbered automatically.
• Open Terminal: open Terminal at the current Finder location.
• Copy Path: copy selected item paths, or copy the current folder path when nothing is selected.

The app supports:

• A master switch for the Finder context menu.
• Individual switches for each action.
• Optional grouped submenu display.
• Manual update checking from GitHub Releases.
• Language support: follows the system, with Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English localization.
• Appearance selection: System, Light, or Dark.

Screenshots

Requirements

• macOS 13.0 or later
• Xcode 15 or later for building from source

Install From Source

chmod +x Scripts/install-local.sh
./Scripts/install-local.sh

The script builds the Release app, copies it to /Applications, registers the Finder extension, and restarts Finder.

Build Manually

xcodebuild \
  -project RightMenuMini.xcodeproj \
  -scheme RightMenuMini \
  -configuration Release \
  -derivedDataPath build \
  build

open build/Build/Products/Release/RightMenuMini.app

First-Time Permission

MenuWish uses Apple's Finder Sync extension mechanism. macOS requires users to enable Finder extensions manually:

1. Open MenuWish.
2. Click Authorize.
3. Enable MenuWish in the File Provider extension sheet.

Before permission is granted, all switches are shown as off and disabled. After permission is enabled, the app restores the default or saved settings.

Notes

• Current version: 0.1.3.
• The distributed app is not notarized yet. Users may need to allow it manually in macOS security settings.

License

MenuWish is released under the MIT License.