Review Request 115752: Change DATA_INSTALL_DIR on Mac OS X

[Alex Merry]

On 21/04/14 23:37, Allen Winter wrote:
> Maybe I'm biased to the Unix-way of thinking, but I'm not following why
> the person who installed KDE gets to have all the app data under their user.
> Or I missing something.  Please enlighten me.
> 
> Seems to me the correct solution is $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/share and we need
> to adjust QStandardPaths results somehow.  Is KStandardDirs gone in frameworks?

Yes. The same issue has come up with Windows. Given the tendency for
software from the UNIX world that has been ported to Windows (and
possibly Mac as well) to use bundled bin/share/lib directories, some way
of adding paths to the QStandardPaths results on those platforms seems
like a good idea.

Alex