Re: porting GWorkspace to osx

[Enrico Sersale]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:

> > ...
> >Constant                Description
> >
> >NSPlainFileType         Plain (untyped) file
> >NSDirectoryFileType     Directory
> >NSApplicationFileType   Cocoa application
> >NSFilesystemFileType    File-system mount point
> >NSShellCommandFileType  Executable shell command
> >
> >As you can see, NO ONE OF THEM is used!
>
> Since Apple's documentation
> <http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSWorkspace.html#BCIEEFBI>
> says so we can asume you found a bug here. When I was working on the
> GWorkspace port to Cocoa (long time ago) I could never open a folder
> by doubleclicking it but only by using the open as folder command.
> After peeking at the sources I also suspected a bug in Cocoa but got
> never that close to it as you did.
>
> I advise you to file a bug report with Apple
> <https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa>.
> ...

Ok, I've done this, even if I think that it is deliberate.
Otherwise I don't understand how they have written all the Finder without
notice this.

> >They use the suffix if this exists (app, gif, pdf), an empty string if no
> >suffix and "0" for the mounted volume!
> > ...