On Mar 22, 2012, at 05:12, Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 03/22/2012 05:35 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Alternately, do we have any interest in changing the default
>> applications_dir to ${prefix}/Applications (keeping a symlink to that
>> in /Applications/MacPorts)?
>
> As far as I remember previous discussions there is some difference in
> the way LaunchServices handles application bundles in specific
> locations. File associations are only registered automatically from some
> known locations such as /Applications or ~/Applications; for other
> directories you first have to open them in Finder once to register the
> application bundle with LaunchServices.
I've had my applications_dir set to ${prefix}/Applications for years and it's
worked fine for me, but I can't say whether I've encountered the LaunchServices
issue you mention... I don't think I have any MacPorts applications that have
file associations.
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