[L2Ork-dev] pd-l2ork-externals folder

[Ivica Bukvic]

I can certainly look into why adding path via gui is not working. Thank you
for the bug report!
On Nov 8, 2014 7:58 AM, "Gilberto Agostinho" <gilbertohasnofb at googlemail.com>
wrote:

>  That sounds like a good compromise, Ivica. Also, I just realized that
> pd-extended does indeed create a invisible config file at ~/ just like
> pd-l2ork is doing, but it doesn't create any folders.
>
> As for customizing the path in their setting file, that's great, but
> probably an even better solution would be to do so via the GUI. I think I
> already reported this, but currently I can't add a new folder to the path
> via "File" and "Path...", I have to manually edit my config file in a text
> editor. That is certainly a minor thing for me as I don't mind to do that
> myself, but I often see in the Pure Data forum how new users have
> difficulties installing externals and this issue would pose as one extra
> difficulty for them. Is this broken only for me or is it for everyone?
>
> Thanks a lot and take care,
> Gilberto
>
> On 08/11/14 14:41, Ivica Bukvic wrote:
>
> 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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