Re: Launch Services Issue/Question - two apps using same file extensions
Re: Launch Services Issue/Question - two apps using same file extensions
- Subject: Re: Launch Services Issue/Question - two apps using same file extensions
- From: Stephen Kay <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:13:15 -0400
- Thread-topic: Launch Services Issue/Question - two apps using same file extensions
on 7/5/13 6:38 PM, Quincey Morris at email@hidden
wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2013, at 14:22 , Stephen Kay <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> It's a shame that there used to be a perfectly workable method for doing
>> this that no longer works, with no real replacement.
>
> If you'll excuse some editorializing, I'd suggest that it was "perfectly
> workable" only within a pure Mac ecosystem. In the past, there was always a
> problem trying to preserve the non-HFS metadata when moving files to or
> through (e.g.) a Windows system. The problem with *that* was the perception
> that Mac files were "broken" and not safe to interchange. That led to a
> perception that the Mac was laughable. The current overly-simple way that
> extensions are used was perhaps a slight over-reaction to this perception, but
> there we are.
Good point, I wasn't thinking about that. But I still wish there was a
better solution than having 35 file extensions for 7 flavors of the app
instead of 5 that can be shared between the flavors yet end up with
different icons...
- Stephen
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