[PD] Plugin for 0.43 to have a gtk-looking open dialog

[Lorenzo Sutton]

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 2010-12-14 15:31, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> I believe the objection you mention is that Pd-extended automatically
>> creates ~/pd-externals.  ~/pd-externals is the standard user-install
>> path for Pd-vanilla and Pd-extended.
>>
I would second the suggestion someone made of a .pd-extended (with dot) 
folder in the user's home as that seems quite standard for many linux 
apps... Of course I'm not sure how much this would break existing 
libraries which rely on the pd-extended folder.

Lorenzo.
> since i think that lorenzo relates to me raising the issues, i can
> confirm that i am indeed concerned with pd-extended automatically
> creating the ~/pd-externals folder.
>
> i don't mind so much if the ~/pd-externals folder is searched
> automatically, but why would anybody want to have an empty folder in
> their home-directory.
>
>>   No sudo or root access needed.
> people who are able to copy a file from ~/Downloads/superduper into
> ~/pd-externals can probably be expected to be able to create a
> ~/pd-externals directory.
> for externals that come with an installation routine (for users who are
> not willing to copy files around manually), this can create the
> directory as well.
>
> ghmsdft
> IOhannes
>
>
>
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