"0 A.D.app would like to receive keystrokes from any application"

[Krinkle]

On macOS 10.15 Catalina, the new sandboxing and security features are detecting something potentially unsafe in the function calls from the game.

When I denied the permission, playing a new game seems to work. So either it is something non-essential or perhaps macOS is automatically making it do the right thing (let the function proceed, but only give it local events). If so, then it is probably a relatively easy fix once we find which function causes it and which one Apple wants us to use instead.

[Krinkle]

macOS Catalina keylogger security warning

[Krinkle]

I found a report of the same error in relation to another program. Leaving this here in case we might be caught by the same root cause:

​https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10439#p64694 ​https://mace.software/2019/10/28/continuum-two-other-new-apps-bundle-write-support/

new macOS Catalina […] it was discovered that there was a unnecessary privilege used by the SDL2: It was listening to background key presses solely to track state of the caps lock key. Luckily, there was already a patch for this issue in SDL 2.0.10, so updating the SDL2 library (and adjusting some caps lock support code) fixed this problem.

[wraitii]

Apparently fixed by ​https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/6a3b2cc9d66c

[wraitii]

Upgrade to 2.0.12 done in ​Phab:rP24257