On 29 Jan 2008, at 5:16 PM, Chris Goedde wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> >> I say that because there is a choice: do you want %u, %U, %n, and how >> many characters and where? We can't know, because we can't >> readUsersMind. Doing something arbitrary is wrong. Moreover just >> sticking it at the end would be wrong because it would screw up the >> file extension. > > Then put it before the extension, at the end of the basename. >
I already told you that changing the filename *after* generating the path from the format is not an option, if that's what you mean. It's essentially impossible to do that in our setup. It must be added in the format. We can try to change the format to our best guess. Christiaan > I think (a significant fraction of) the users are speaking pretty > clearly here---they don't care about this, and they just want BibDesk > to provide a reasonable default that mimics the old behavior. This is > especially true for people (like me) for whom this will never matter, > because they only use a single .bib file. I would much rather have > BibDesk silently add something if it were ever needed so that I never > have to think about this and so that I can keep using my old file > specification. Having a button in that dialog that says "Do what you > think is best when necessary" or "I feel lucky" or whatever seems > perfectly reasonable, and its what many of us want. > > Just my $0.00. > > Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
