[L2Ork-dev] pd-l2ork-externals folder

[Ivica Bukvic]

This feature was inherited from the original extended version that pd-l2ork
was forked from many years ago, which is 0.42.6. As a potential compromise
what we might do is provide a default path without creating a folder that
looks under the old/current folder, and then allow users to customize that
path in their settings file? Thoughts?

FWIW, personally I don't use this folder at all.
On Nov 8, 2014 7:19 AM, "Gilberto Agostinho" <gilbertohasnofb at googlemail.com>
wrote:

>  Hi Albert,
>
> On 08/11/14 08:14, Albert Graef wrote:
>
> So if this is adopted then pd-l2ork should still fall back to reading
> ~/.pdl2ork if there's no other config file.
>
>
> I think this is a good idea, it should be simple enough to tell pd-l2Ork
> to look for that file on the first load (and thus before it will create the
> hidden folder for the first time), so old users can have that file being
> copied to the new location.
>
>  Also, I'm not sure whether it's such a great idea to hide away the
> ~/pdl2ork-externals folder. You don't hide your bin folder either, do you?
>
>
> I don't hide my bin indeed, but think of this: if every program I have
> installed on my computer would decide to create a visible folder on my
> home, that place would be a mess (I don't even have to imagine that, I can
> simply hit Ctrl+H and see how many things are there!). It would be a mess
> to quickly find the folders that I use all the time, such as Music,
> Document, etc., compared to folders that I used once or twice in a
> lifetime, such as ~/.mozilla, ~/.gimp-2.8, etc.. I remember how polluted
> was My Documents folder when I was using Windows, since a lot of programs
> were doing exactly what you proposes - and I really don't look forward in
> having my system like that once again!
>
>  One might discuss, though, whether it's necessary that pd-l2ork always
> creates that folder on startup if it doesn't exist. AFAICT, other Pd
> flavors don't do this.
>
>
> That would be a more immediate solution, although I still think the a
> hidden folder is the best way to go. Lastly, I can confirm nor pd-extended
> nor vanilla pd do this.
>
> Best,
> Gilberto
>
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