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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 class="moz-cite-prefix">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
Agostinho" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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?
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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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