Hi,
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 30/10/13 Riccardo Mottola said:
Would mind do the following:
1) select the file you want to preview
2) open Tools->Inspector->Tools This should report all registered
Applications which may open the filetype you want. You should have
one or more. I suppose in your case Preview.app is the default
3) try double-click there with the different applications
They all should open! Or does it work for some yes and for some not?
Looks like Preview.app is broken. ViewPDF works, and I'm not sure how to
easily associate other viewers. I clicked on a .py file and saw no way to
associate it with TextView, or anything else. I find the interface quite
unintuitive, with lots of flickering as my mouse causes focus changes. It
seems incompatible with focus follows mouse mode, since some windows just
lower when my mouse moves out from the window boundaries.
The mechanism is directly inherited from OpenStep and Mac. Each
application "registers" itself, it has a manifest (plist file) of the
document types it is able to open. AppWrappers for non-gnustep apps
provide that too.
In the Inspector section "tools" you will see all apps that registered
and you can select the default one.
GNUstep is essentially incompatible with focus follows mouse, to my
knowledge. It doesn't fits it model and I don't know if there are tweaks
to make it work, I don't use it.
I'm also unclear on the boundaries between GWorkspace and WindowMaker, as they
both seem to implement a dock...
well, yes... essentially one can be used without the other. But if you
use both, you need to fiddle with some preferences to personalize it.
You may disable the desktop of the GWorkspace when using debian. Or you
can also show/hide the desktop at your need from the menu.
Ok, thanks. I'd love to see some good tutorials in youtube, or elsewhere.
I never had the need for one, I know of this tutorial:
http://gnustep.made-it.com/GWorkspace/GWorkspace.html
it should be updated in several details and look squit ebasic, but
should be a good start.
Riccardo
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