On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:45 AM, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday February 25 2015 19:10:08 Jeremy Whiting wrote: > >>QStandardPaths there that worked pretty well. In discussion with the Qt >>developers I began to think that we maybe should be installing our data >>files in the places that QStandardPaths expect to find them, rather than >>get QStandardPaths to find files in linuxy paths. > > Even if that were the easy way out, I don't think it's the proper solution if > not only because OS X and MS Windows are multi-user machines and are maybe > more often used like that than Linux desktop installs. Installing stuff in > $HOME/Library/Application Support is thus not an option (besides, there's > that obnoxious space in the filename that's bound to cause issues). > > If we can't find a best-of-both-worlds solution that we all agree on and can > go into Qt, we'll just have to roll our own (which might be incorporated > after all once it's proved its value ;)) > > Reminder to self: add my views to wherever we decided to continue the stalled > discussion from gerrit. > > R
IIRC, the solution is using /Library instead, although my OS X knowledge is rusty. Aleix
