KDE4 proposal: Paths in i18n strings

[Benjamin Reed]

On 7/3/06, Gary L. Greene Jr. <greeneg at phoenuxos.com> wrote:

> Most Mac development literature from Apple says that if the application is one
> being used by the end user, the paths should be represented in
> the "volume:Path:To:File" format. The only time it should be output
> as /Path/To/File is in console applications. Mind you, this makes it a little
> inconsistent, but this is what most Mac users are accustomed to.

Where?  I think the only thing that expects ":" is carbon stuff that
is meant to be source-compatible with OS9.  :'s are OS9 things, they
have no bearing on modern (ie unix-based) Mac OS X other than
backwards-compatibility with APIs Qt doesn't use, AFAIK.

For the whole Qt/Mac port everything's been done under the assumption
that paths are like other unixes, and it works fine.