On 11/06/2011, at 7:17 PM, a.l.e wrote:
> hi mike, > >> Granted, I'm new to Macs, but it seems to me that if I open a Scribus >> document from the Documents folder in Finder or on the dock, Scribus >> should start up WITH the document opened. (This is what happens on >> Windows.) Instead, what happens on the Mac is Scribus starts up and >> displays the New Document dialog. I then have to manually click on >> Open Existing Document and navigate to the document that was supposed >> to be opening already from double-clicking it in the Documents >> folder. (Canceling the New Document dialog has Scribus remaining >> open WITHOUT the document open that had caused Scribus to start in >> the first place.) Is there some setting I need to enable somewhere >> to have documents actually open with Scribus without having to >> manually open them from within Scribus? > > > i know there was a bug on mac, not sure if it has been fixed. > i thought that somebody had a look at it, but from your feedback it > seems that the issue is not fixed, yet! > > the workaround is to always first open the application and then open > the file... > > ciao > a.l.e > > Having never used Scribus on anything but the Mac, I didn't know that it worked differently on other platforms. I have found this "feature" annoying, to say the least, but didn't know to complain about it! No, it hasn't been fixed. I.4.0 RC3 on OS X 10.5.8 Cheers, Andrew. PS. Mike, Thanks for raising the topic!
