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Thanks a lot for all your efforts, Ivica. Take care!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/11/14 15:09, Ivica Bukvic wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I can certainly look into why adding path via gui is
not working. Thank you for the bug report!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2014 7:58 AM, "Gilberto
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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.<br>
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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?<br>
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Thanks a lot and take care,<br>
Gilberto<br>
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<div>On 08/11/14 14:41, Ivica Bukvic wrote:<br>
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<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
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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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