Here is my *working* proposal for beginner-friendliness: the Pd Documents 
directory. Also includes deken-workingness.

Thanks to Miller for the new "add-to-path" message.

Video demo: https://youtu.be/YWMnynyIeoc <https://youtu.be/YWMnynyIeoc>

The documents path is an optional beginner-friendly location for patches and 
externals and defaults to USERHOME/Documents/Pd. If the docs path is not set 
when Pd is started, the user is prompted about creating it and it can be 
changed or disabled in the Path preferences dialog. If the user hits Cancel, 
the docs path functionality is disabled. A subdirectory for externals is also 
created and is set as the deken install directory. Once set, the docs path 
becomes the preferred initial directory for file dialogs to help those new to 
filesystem hierarchy. 

Included in this work: deken can now optionally add external directories to the 
user search paths via a popup after download.

*mic drop*

sleep

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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>



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