On 03/02/2017 10:26 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > 2017-03-02 18:08 GMT-03:00 Roman Haefeli <reduz...@gmail.com>: > >> Deken should not ask you to download there, if it can't write there. If it >> still does, it might be a bug. >> > > it's just a last ditch effort, it's gotta ask you to download somewhere... >
by now i think it is rather like this: if deken doesn't find a writable folder, it will just open the directory-browser wherever Pd currently is (in its working-directory). this directory might happen to be writable or not. it is not a suggestion to blindly accept. > >> That's why they have their user specific folder. > > > Well, they don't for Pd... at least for now... well, they do. they just have to create them :-) > > >> Anyway, at least don't teach that to anybody, even if you believe it works >> well for you. >> > > It has a particularity... it makes a difference wether you install in the > global, user or application. In the case of an application, it'll only be > valid for that Pd app, so you can have multiple Pds or Pd-Extended along > side it. So, well, yeah, I think we should tell people that they can do it > if they want to... i don't think so. take any well-established software that allows you to install addons from the net, e.g. firefox. it *is* possible to install firefox-addons systemwide, but *you cannot* do so via its built-in addon manager. i'm pretty sure they put some decent thought into that. > > you're not supposed to do that. Users don't write there for security >> reasons. > > > ok, maybe warn people... but it doesn't seem too dangerous anyway, more of > an annoyance. I mean, I never knew other operating systems had issues with > it, I could always do it in Mac OS and always have... it's not that they have issues. they have *features* (and i mean it) i suppose you are running OSX as an "admin" user. you can do quite a number of things on the filesystem as "admin" on OSX without being prompted for your password, e.g. if you are brave enough to use the terminal. gfds IOhannes
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