Tellico 1.3.3 Released

[Norbert Nemec]

Robby Stephenson wrote:
> Tellico 1.3.3 is available from http://periapsis.org/tellico/download/
> md5: 6e08c3f96c5b2ca871b83dbaca41b2ae
>
> Changelog:
> * Fixed bug with file catalogs to properly match on file location
> * Changed Arxiv fetcher to remove ID version number from results
>   
Great. Thanks.

> * Updated drag-and-drop to allow HTTP urls, i.e. dragging bibtex file from 
> browser.
>   
Does not seem to work for me :-(

This is what I tried:

* open the abstract of a typical article in firefox, e.g. 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.76.115419
* Switch "Article Options" to "View Citation(s) in BibTeX"
* Press "Go"
-> the bibtex file is opened directly in firefox
* drag the URL line from the browser onto Tellico
-> Tellico does not react at all :-(

-- When I drag the same URL to the KDE desktop, KDE asks for a file name 
and then saves the URL itself into that file (instead of the bibtex content)

-- When I do the same from KDE konqueror, Tellico does not react either.

-- When I drag from konqueror to the KDE desktop, KDE does not ask for a 
filename but instead saves the bibtex content to a file with a default 
name. However - that filename does not end in .bib

-- When I drag that file without ending to Tellico, Tellico does not 
react at all.

-- When I rename that file to end in .bib, and drop it on Tellico, 
Tellico finally imports the article.

So, may it be that tellico expects the URL to end in .bib? In that case, 
it will not work for many of the common journals that offer bibtex 
export but use a URL without a file ending.

Furthermore, it seems that firefox does drag-and-drop differently than 
KDE... :-(

Perhaps, Tellico could just accept plain text per drag and drop and 
determine the type of the data automatically? That way, one could just 
drop a snippet of a bibtex file on Tellico to import that reference.

Of course, in that case, it should also detect if the plain text does 
contain a URL which should then be opened and imported.

Wow - this is getting messy... :-(

Greetings,
Norbert