Inspecting BD a bit with
defaults read edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk
lead me first to conclude that Adam might be right. At least I could not figure
out that it is not a BD specific preference. However, I have set in the Finder
to open all pdf with Adobe Reader. Double-clicking a pdf in the Finder opens it
with that wanted reader. When changing in BD the pdf reader to say Skim, then
opening a pdf from within BD opens it in Skim. This tells me clearly that there
is a BD preference for pdf reading which is different from the system wide.
However, I agree with kbostroem that it is not well placed under tab 'Fields'.
I opt to have it under tab AutoFile or perhaps General. AutoFile has mostly to
do with pdf's, doesn't it? Therefore users might find it easier when it would
be offered there.
What can Chrstiaan tell us on this?
Regards,
Andreas
ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin
Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology
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On 29/Apr/2011, at 14:38 , Adam M. Goldstein wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2011, at 8:25, kbostroem <b...@kim-bostroem.de> wrote:
>
>> Sorry if I'm stepping into this discussion that lately, but I'm also one of
>> those people with a burning desire for a default-PDF-viewer preference at a
>> transparent place in BibDesk. In fact, I just didn't find this preference
>> although I was looking for it in the BibDesk preference pane. I then googled
>> it and stumbled into this forum, so I'm happy that the setting exists and
>> works!
>>
>>
>> I don't like it in General, if not just because it's not a primary
>>> preference. Personally, I would rather side with Adam and remove it
>>> all together than moving it to the General preferences. As it's really
>>> an advanced preference that arguable should not be there at all,
>>> there's a strong case to make it hidden.
>>
>> Why do you developers often see things so deeply different than ordinary
>> users?
>> As an ordinary user, I simply don't care if the PDF-viewer setting is an
>> "advanced preference" or a "primary preference" or whatever, I just want to
>> set it, and I want to find it at a location where I expect it to be, which
>> is definitely not under "Fields".
>> But more to the point: What exactly is wrong with putting the setting under
>> "General"? As far as I can see, the setting does not influence my
>> system-wide default PDF-viewer setting, but just and only the BibDesk-wide
>> viewer setting. It simply lets me define what viewer to use within BibDesk,
>> so it is a veritable BibDesk setting and not in any way suspicious or
>> dangerous. How come you and Adam think to the contrary, that it's an "evil"
>> setting which should be hidden from the user or even removed?
>>
>
> I suspect it's because there is a system-wide setting, and that if people
> were to change this just for BD, it would conflict with that setting.
>
> In contrast with TeXShop, whose PDF viewer is built in, BibDesk relies on an
> external program, and changing the preference for it in BD would take over a
> system function.
>
> Also I am pretty sure you can right-click on a PDF icon or image and choose
> "open with" as a way of opting out of the system-wide setting.
>
>
>> --
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>> http://bibdesk-users.661331.n2.nabble.com/Way-to-make-Skim-default-only-in-Bibdesk-tp2201367p6316691.html
>> Sent from the bibdesk users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>
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