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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Lord-Kamina

Difference between Editor/Viewer/Shell

Open Tekl opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

Is there a documentation of the categories? Editor seems to affect the double click in Finder, but what is Viewer and Shell for?

Tekl avatar Mar 13 '19 10:03 Tekl

These roles are defined as part of the launch services specification by Apple. I don't really know up to what point each is used (I think viewer is essentially default and Editor trumps Viewer but I might be remembering wrong).

Anyway, you can find some info at: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/LaunchServicesConcepts/LSCConcepts/LSCConcepts.html Look for "Application Roles". It doesn't say anything about Shell though.

Lord-Kamina avatar Mar 13 '19 11:03 Lord-Kamina

Thanks for you answer. Strange is, that PSD images will respect the Viewer setting for double clicks when the Editor is "Adobe Photoshop CC". If I select another Editor, the Editor setting is preferred.

Tekl avatar Mar 13 '19 12:03 Tekl