On 13 Feb 2009, at 8:29 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > On 01/29/09 06:54, "Adam R. Maxwell" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rolf, I must have missed this, but how are you using the tags? One >> of >> your posts mentioned smart folders, but I don't believe Finder >> supports searching extended attribute metadata. Is there some other >> piece of software that allows searching them? Does BibDesk now >> search >> them? > > So I finally have an answer on the technical side, thanks to Daring > Fireball's link to this discussion: > > http://ironicsoftware.com/community/comments.php?DiscussionID=632&page=1 > #Item_0 > > My personal opinion is that Michael Tsai is correct. This is a > clever hack, > but any manipulation of com.apple.* attributes directly is a > terrible idea > unless Apple explicitly says otherwise. > > -- > Adam
OK, so basically you're saying that it's ok to display the tags, but not to make them editable? I think after reading this I agree. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
