On May 29, 2012, at 16:48 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On May 30, 2012, at 1:38, Justin C. Walker wrote: > >> >> On May 29, 2012, at 15:40 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: >>> On May 30, 2012, at 0:31, Justin C. Walker wrote: >>>> >>>> I've been having hardware problems on my 10.7 system, and I have noticed >>>> that on reboot, while Skim happily starts up if it were running at crash >>>> time, it does not open any documents that were open at that point. I have >>>> the startup behavior set to open any previously open docs, and that works >>>> when I start up by hand, but not when Skim starts up at boot time. >>>> >>>> Is this a Skim or an Apple issue? >> [snip] >>> I think this is more an Apple issue. My guess is that the hook we use to >>> open the docs isn't called when Skim is not opened directly by the user. >>> For instance, that hook is also not called when Skim is opened due to >>> opening a file e.g. from Finder (which is at it should be.) Relatedly, Skim >>> does not use the Lion document restore feature, as that has negative >>> interference with various Skim features (like that preference setting.) >> >> >> OK, I'll report this to Apple. > > Well, I'm not saying it's a bug from Apple. It's probably working as designed > from their POV (i.e. it is not unsensible.) I tried to illustrate this with > the way it behaves when you launch Skim by opening a file. > >> FWIW, Preview works as expected, which, I guess, is expected… > > They almost certainly use the Lion document restore function, which also > means you cannot turn it off.
Understood. Sometimes, reporting these things results in forward progress…. Justin -- Justin C. Walker Curmudgeon at Large Director Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income -- Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
