[KDE/Mac] Multiplatform frameworks

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Fri Feb 27 02:26:49 GMT 2015


On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:45 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday February 25 2015 19:10:08 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
>
>>QStandardPaths there that worked pretty well. In discussion with the Qt
>>developers I began to think that we maybe should be installing our data
>>files in the places that QStandardPaths expect to find them, rather than
>>get QStandardPaths to find files in linuxy paths.
>
> Even if that were the easy way out, I don't think it's the proper solution if not only because OS X and MS Windows are multi-user machines and are maybe more often used like that than Linux desktop installs. Installing stuff in $HOME/Library/Application Support is thus not an option (besides, there's that obnoxious space in the filename that's bound to cause issues).
>
> If we can't find a best-of-both-worlds solution that we all agree on and can go into Qt, we'll just have to roll our own (which might be incorporated after all once it's proved its value ;))
>
> Reminder to self: add my views to wherever we decided to continue the stalled discussion from gerrit.
>
> R

IIRC, the solution is using /Library instead, although my OS X
knowledge is rusty.

Aleix




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