On Oct 15, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Joost Verburg wrote:
Enrico Forestieri wrote:
No, this is not acceptable because you are changing the behaviour on
the other systems (currently only cygwin and OSX).
So the Windows file associations are also used on Cygwin? I added
that to the attached patch.
I think we don't have auto-detection for Mac OS X. Or am I
overlooking something?
Moreover, I think that configure.py should still try to find some
suitable application for a given task, such that, when no defaults
are set in the OS, the ones find by the lookup can be used.
It has been decided that the OS settings will be used for viewers.
It is not the task of LyX to detect specific ones.
On Mac OS X, what works best is not "auto" but "open" (which OS X
uses internally to open files). As I've discovered over the last
couple months, "auto" sometimes does strange things when the user has
not explicitly defined a viewer/editor for a particular file type,
though when the user has done so, "auto" seems to work fine.
Bennett
