Review Request 115752: Change DATA_INSTALL_DIR on Mac OS X

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Alex Merry <alex.merry at kde.org> wrote:

> 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
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FWIW, I've missed configurability in QStandardPaths in my Android
experiments too.

Aleix
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