<p dir="ltr">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?</p>
<p dir="ltr">FWIW, personally I don't use this folder at all.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2014 7:19 AM, "Gilberto Agostinho" <<a href="mailto:gilbertohasnofb@googlemail.com">gilbertohasnofb@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Albert,<br>
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<div>On 08/11/14 08:14, Albert Graef wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">So if this is adopted then pd-l2ork should still
fall back to reading ~/.pdl2ork if there's no other config file.<br>
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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. <br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">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? <br>
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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!<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">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. <br>
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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.<br>
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Best,<br>
Gilberto<br>
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