On 2016-05-09 03:32, Chris McCormick wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/05/16 11:12, Miller Puckette wrote: >> Me, when I shout a thte computer, it's more likely to be "where the >> *&$^%& >> did you put the file I just downloaded?" or "why the $%*& did you just do >> that" as opposed to "why did you just ask me to confirm this operation >> that >> will put files on my disk". But I know my own tastes aren't shared by >> all >> users... > > While we are shouting, it seems people (including you) are annoyed about > "~/pd-externals" all up in their home directory. I wonder if it would > make sense to deprecate that in favour of standard config paths on all > platforms? > > Blender does this well already and follows existing desktop standards. I > think it would be a good model to copy: > > Linux = $HOME/.config/blender/2.77/ > > Mac OSX = /Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.77/ > > MS-Windows = C:\Documents and Settings\$USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Blender > Foundation\Blender\2.77\ >
i was always under the impression that the W32 and OSX search paths were pretty OK, so i'm not sure whether action is needed on that side (but of course i am on linux mostly) i guess this impression mainly comes from the question of how easy it is to hide/ignore that folder, even if I did install something to it. e.g. on w32, the "%AppData%" path is there already in most cases, and it is in a place that i (as the user) don't usually open, so it doesn't get in my way. so the main problem is on linux, where "pd-externals" show up in my *home* directory, a place that everybody finds themselves looking at all the time. so i'm all for moving to ~/.local/lib/pd/extra/ (and/or ~/.local/lib/pd/0.47-3/extra/ if somebody thinks this is useful) the relevant specs can be found at [1] gfdmasr IOhannes PS: i don't think that ~/.config/ is the right place to put externals to, regardless of what blender does (again, see [1]) [1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
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