Re: [Bibdesk-users] Assess pdf from library window, feature request ?

[Christiaan H. <chr...@we...>]

We let the system decide what application to use, and as you suspected 
the reason it opens a browser is the http:// at the beginning. If you 
would have file:// than it would use the default app for the file type.

IMHO I don't think your proposal is good way of dealing with this 
situation. In fact it has some nasty problem: who is responsible for 
cleaning up the temporary downloaded file? Apps like preview don't know 
it is temporary, so they won't do it. And BibDesk doesn't know when the 
default app is finished with it. This is precisely (one of the things) 
that a browser is good for: it manages its own temporary downloaded 
files.

Christiaan


On Jul 7, 2005, at 15:35, jiho wrote:

>> Double-clicking the file icon in the Local-Url column opens the file 
>> in the default application.
>
> Dealing with this "default application" I was wondering something. how 
> is it chosen? could it be changed a little?
>
> My problem is that all my PDFs are on a web server somewhere and the 
> link is therefore made using the URL field. My links look somehow 
> like:
> http://biomex.univ-perp.fr/biblio/HowardH2005.pdf
> (off topic but: this is a way to share my PDF easily with other people 
> in the lab they are accessible in the lab through this server and my 
> bibliography database, with the links, is available to anybody through 
> CiteULike).
> anyway, the point is that, if CiteULike is great to share bibliography 
> and add new items to it, it's not so usable when it comes to 
> searching, linking PDFs and so on. Therefore I use BibDesk everytime I 
> want to brwose in my database and when I double click to open the PDF 
> it opens the PDF in my web browser. I ghuess it is because it detects 
> the default application from the http:// at the beginning of the link.
> I would rather want it to download the PDF somewhere in a temporary 
> directory (this is done anyway in the cache of the internet browser) 
> and open it with Preview. IMHO, it would be a good default behaviour.
> Could the default application could be decided from the file extension 
> or MIME type of the downloaded file or something like this?
>
>> This is the column with the little file icon in its header; add the 
>> column if you don't see it. BTW, you can also open the URL in a 
>> browser in a similar way, and you can drag the file from the 
>> Local-Url column to copy. See the Help for more info.
>
> JiHO
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