[PD] New deken feature, create system user folder

[Christof Ressi]

> i think ~/Documents is for user-created documents,

The Processing and Arduino folders in ~/Documents contain a 'libraries' subfolder, which is considered the default place for user-installed libraries. But in the end, that's just the Processing way. 

BTW, one thing I don't find so elegant (maybe that has changed now...) is that Deken will ask you *if* it should install the library in the default folder and you have to click 'no' to choose another directory. the question itself is a bit ambiguous and it doesn't seem very intuitive. IMHO it should rather ask you *where* to install by opening the panel. Just my two cents.


> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 06. April 2017 um 17:22 Uhr
> Von: "IOhannes m zmoelnig" <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> An: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> Betreff: Re: [PD] New deken feature, create system user folder
>
> On 2017-04-06 06:20, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> > A parallel discussion in this thread is that the system folders change in
> > MacOS, since ~/Library/Pd is an unusual and inconvenient place for that (an
> > example is processing using ~/Documents instead)
> 
> i think ~/Documents is for user-created documents, whereas ~/Libraries
> is for storing resources related to an application, such as plugins and
> libraries [1].
> afaict, a Pd-library (e.g. downloaded via deken) very much belongs into
> the category of "plugins and libraries", rather than "user-created
> documents".
> so according to Apple's guidelines, ~/Library/Pd seems to be the correct
> place to install Pd-libraries into.
> 
> iiuic, ~/Documents/Pd would be used for storing the patches you are
> currently working on. this probably should be the default working
> directory on OSX (i unfondly remember the days when it used to be '/')
> 
> i think the processing analogy also only takes the being-worked-on
> documents into account, rather than reusable libraries.
> 
> (as i sidenote, this makes it out of the scope for deken (so nothing
> that *i* would implement ;-)))
> 
> fgmsdrt
> IOhannes
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/MacOSXDirectories/MacOSXDirectories.html
> 
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