Re: NSWorkspace bug

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 07:11  pm, Enrico Sersale wrote:

> -getInfoForFile:application:type: seems to consider only the case in 
> which
> the file extension is equal to "bundle" to return NSPlainFileType when
> the type returned by NSFileManager is NSFileTypeDirectory.
>
> This is wrong, because, some applications as, for examples, 
> Preferences,
> declare an extension in their NSTypes that is used for *directories* 
> that
> have this extensions.
>
> This behaviour forces GWorkspace to use some ugly workarounds to not 
> show
> the condents of those directories.

OK ... I've changed the method to try to get it to work as I think you 
want.

First I wasted a while on MacOS 10.2 trying to figure out what MacOS 
did -
only to discover that the method is broken in MacOS, and only ever 
seems to
return the file extension rather than any of the file type constants.