Ok, great Christiaan.  I guess that would deserve fixing in the next nightly.

I suggest 3 changes to make everything consistent:

- "View -> Group Field -> No Group Field"
- "View -> Group Field -> Add Group Field..."
- "View -> Group Field -> Remove Group Field..."

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Andreas
 

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On 20/Apr/2010, at 12:08 , Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> OK, I found the problem. There's another item with the same name in the View 
> > Group Field submenu that's stealing the shortcut. That's one of the 
> problems with identifying items by title rather than action.
> 
> Christiaan
> 
> On Apr 20, 2010, at 11:52, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> 
>> The menu item is active when a detail window for a non-external item is key. 
>> But that's irrelevant, because system defined shortcuts should also be 
>> assigned when the menu item is not active, at least that's what I see for 
>> other items, and also in this particular case when I open a window for an 
>> external publication.
>> 
>> Why this one behaves so strange I don't know. The relation between the 
>> status bar seems coincidental, perhaps something to do with priorities 
>> because that menu item also occurs in the popup there). It is name-specific, 
>> as I get the problem with Add Field… and Remove Field…, but not with other 
>> items like Change Field Name…. I'm pretty much convinced it's a bug 
>> somewhere in the system, as there's nothing special in our code for these 
>> items. My guess is that these items somehow conflict with some default items 
>> somewhere in the system and it gets confused.
>> 
>> Christiaan
>> 
>> On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:08, Fischlin Andreas wrote:
>> 
>>> Indeed a GUI bug. I can repeat this behavior on my system too and agree 
>>> that either the command should either be greyed out, because inactive or 
>>> fully active including any keyboard shortcut. The question would then only 
>>> be what are the conditions to trigger active status, edit window open AND 
>>> status bar or is an open edit window really already sufficient to make the 
>>> command active. In my view the status bar should not matter for the menu 
>>> command, since the + at the lower left corner is in my understanding merely 
>>> an alternative to the menu command.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Andreas
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ETH Zurich
>>> Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin
>>> Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology
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>>> 8092 Zurich
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>>> 
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>>> 
>>> On 20/Apr/2010, at 09:44 , Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In this case it is not greyed out and the menu item is usable, only
>>>> the shortcut doesn't show up when the status bar is hidden.
>>>> 
>>>> Niels
>>>> 
>>>> On 20.04.2010, at 09:40, "Fischlin  Andreas" <[email protected]
>>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Admitted, it is confusing that shortcuts don't show up while the
>>>>> menu command is clearly visible, albeit greyed out (inactive).
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not sure this to be a bug, but others knowing Objective C and
>>>>> Apple's frameworks and how BibDesk makes use of it better  than me
>>>>> should judge on this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Andreas
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ETH Zurich
>>>>> Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin
>>>>> Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology
>>>>> CHN E 21.1
>>>>> Universitaetstrasse 16
>>>>> 8092 Zurich
>>>>> SWITZERLAND
>>>>> 
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> www.sysecol.ethz.ch
>>>>> 
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>>>>> +41 44 633-1136 fax
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>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 20/Apr/2010, at 09:09 , Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 20 Apr 2010, at 08:18, Fischlin Andreas wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Do you see the status bar at the bottom of the edit window of the
>>>>>>> publication with which you are testing this? Unless you have the
>>>>>>> status bar active, the shortcut does indeed not show up. Use menu
>>>>>>> command "View -> Show Status Bar" and "View -> Hide Status Bar",
>>>>>>> respectively, to control the visibility of the status bar at the
>>>>>>> bottom of edit windows. Unless you checked all these things out I
>>>>>>> doubt there is a bug in BibDesk. It works fine for me.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That was the problem - status bar was hidden. As soon as I turned
>>>>>> that on, it worked.
>>>>>> Looks like an interface-bug, doesn't it?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Niels
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 20/Apr/2010, at 07:51 , Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:48:55 +0200, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Apr 19, 2010, at 14:37, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I want to add a shortcut for Publication -> Add Field… but
>>>>>>>>>> whatever
>>>>>>>>>> I enter in the Keyboard-Pref Pane doesn't work. I tried "Add
>>>>>>>>>> Field",
>>>>>>>>>> "Add Field…" and "Add Field..." -- what do I have to use?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Niels
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> "Add Field…", wfm.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Doesn't work for me :(
>>>>>>>> I have the publication-window open and had a look onto the menu
>>>>>>>> when I
>>>>>>>> was in a text-field and outside of a text-field. The shortcut just
>>>>>>>> doesn't appear in the menu.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I tried it now with another menu-entry with a "…" (New Public
>>>>>>>> ation
>>>>>>>> from File…) at the end and there it doesn't work neither. It
>>>>>>>> seems
>>>>>>>> that this is the problem because it works with menu-entries that
>>>>>>>> do not
>>>>>>>> have "…" at the end. I tried the same in another application w
>>>>>>>> ith such
>>>>>>>> a menu-entry (with "…" at the end) and there it works w/out any
>>>>>>>> problems.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> And just to be clear: I tried "…" and "..." (but afaik the fir
>>>>>>>> st one
>>>>>>>> is the one that should work; and I c&p the one from Christiaan)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I am using Bibdesk 1.5.1
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Niels
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