Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
- Subject: Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:26:00 -0700
On Wednesday, June 19, 2002, at 08:35 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
Why [is] Project Builder, rather than TextEdit, is considered to be the
default application for TEXT. ... I'm still curious as to why a huge
powerful, complex esoteric development tool would be the default
application for something as ubiquitous, slight and harmless as TEXT.
Maybe PB existed first, before anything else? (Did they use Project
Builder to build TextEdit, maybe?)
According the Project Builder QA guy, it's because there are some bugs
in the document types they claim to support. They're aware of the
problem (obviously) and plan to fix it post-Jaguar. (TextEdit is in
fact built using Project Builder, but that has nothing to do with it.)
Bear in mind that it's not Mac OS X inflicting this on you, it's Project
Builder itself, and non-Apple applications do this too. I consider
BBEdit on X to be rather over-zealous -- it claims about 80 different
file extensions, most of which I don't want to open with BBEdit.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
P.S. It should be possible to fix Project Builder's document bindings
yourself if you're sufficiently ambitious: open Project Builder's
Info.plist file (PB.app/Contents/Info.plist), and go through the
CFBundleDocumentTypes array deleting all the CFBundleTypeOSTypes entries
that are "TEXT". Once that's done, delete the Launch Services
preferences files (~/Preferences/LS*; there are three of them), log out,
and log back in. Standard caveats about making a backup first apply,
and I haven't actually tried this myself, but it seems like it ought to
work. ;-)
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