On Jan 18, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote: > let me start by saying that I know that the topic of input managers > has been discussed on this list, still, I'm not happy with the current > situation.
I'm not happy with it either... > As you all know, with the introduction of Leopard, input managers have > been disabled due to security concerns. For me – and I know I'm not > alone here – this means a major loss of functionality. The ability to > autocomplete cite keys in every Cocoa app was one of the greatest > features of BibDesk IMO. Before the input manager, we used Services. Before that, there was the cite drawer and/or copy and paste. Both of these are still fully supported, and should work in Cocoa and Carbon applications. > Most input managers can be enabled in Leopard. There are several tools > for this, and IME this always works – with one exception: I can't get > the BibDesk input manager to work again. Although the manager is > enabled (with a tool called Input Managers) and I even re-enabled the > respective prefpane in BibDesk by hacking info.plist, autocompletion > doesn't work. So my question is: Has anyone been succesful in making > this work? I haven't tried it, but I know others have gotten it to work. You've installed it in /Library and set permissions? And removed it from ~/ Library? You might try the MacOSX-TeX list. > I know that the developers never liked the input manager solution too > much and that they prefer costum solutions for every app. In this > spirit I filed a feature request for directo support for BibDesk in > TeXShop, my favorite LaTeX editor. I sent the code to do this to Dick Koch and Jérome Laurens months ago when Leopard was released, along with a detailed description of how to use it (at their request). I sent them both a note last weekend asking if they've looked at it. So far, no response. Fortunately for me, TextMate doesn't have this problem... > But I still think that BibDesk > loses much of its strength without the input manager. So this is my > plea: Please think again about re-enabling this functionality. At > least don't disable it if the input manager is enabled under Leopard. Sorry, no dice. Input managers (ours included) cause too many weird, random bugs, aside from the security implications. You've figured out how to get the pref pane back, and that's the only thing that was intentionally disabled. Our installation process no longer works on Leopard, since it requires write permission to the install directory; we'd have to use an installer package to install the thing now or delve into Apple's privileged execution stuff. -- adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
