As a good user, I should open he preferences of any application I am trying out, but often I do not do this. However the default action of an application like this should not be to assume > > The "each time you use it" part is interesting. AIUI, an app contains, > in its Info.plist, a list of file types it can open (along with their > associated icon files, etc.), and LaunchServices does the rest. Must > SubEthaEdit be doing something programmatically to steal the file > associations, or could it be LaunchServices' doing? > > For that matter, what is the expected behaviour when a new app is > installed that handles some of the same file types as an already > installed app? Should the user have to Get Info on an instance of each > file type in order to set the preferred handler? It seems like there > should be a better UI for that sort of thing. (Didn't there used to be > one for Internet Config at least, in System Preferences?)
There are several add-ons out there to do what InternetConfig did. I am using RCDefaultApp 2.02 PreferencePane. RCDefault builds a list of applications which if uses to attempt controlling which applications open which file types. It seems to be doing the trick except that applications like Stuffit sometimes override it on first run. To bring this back on topic, I've been frustrated by bibliographic file formats. For instance, if I download a file called "citmgr" , OS X thinks its an Excel (Microsoft binary) spread sheet. That file should go straight to BibDesk.app (BibDesk is a citation manager which handles BibTeX type citations. However there is no way to get either Firefox or Camino to call that application. EndNot, ProCite and RefWorks formated citations have support for Mac but I've never been able to actually get this working. What class of document are these? The aren't technically a MIME type, nor are they meant for humans to read. This would be nice to have working, but I have no pressing need for it so I just keep it on the back burner for the time being. Oh, I just downloaded a new version of BibDesk, the release notes for this version say this: "You can now force file->viewer mappings to override your system defaults (I still think this is weird, but it will stop some user complaints)" There is only so much Camino and Firefox developers can do about this. It seems there is a broader issue which Apple should deal with. Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for music" Sergei Rachmaninov _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
