My first guess is that not many others would find this idea useful, but I figured it's worth an email to see if I'm wrong.
I would like to be able to right click on a citation and be able to click on "open pdf". The filenames of the papers I cite are all stored with the author field of the BibTeX (followed by the extension ".pdf"). Thus, I would just need to input the folder location into a LyX document setting, and the feature would work. I'm guessing this feature might not make sense to be in LyX. I'm expecting a response of "use JabRef" or another bibliography manager that does that for me. Any thoughts? Scott