On Jan 5, 2022, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

Message: 1
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 20:58:02 +0100
From: Winfried Ritsch <ritsch@iem.at>


[1] Error response:

That perhaps looks like a problem with deken itself.

[2] Also I do not like the recent behaviour to be forced to choose default 
folders for externals installation, since also on headless computers when 
setup automatically, it cannot answer an file dialog on first startup, I do not 
know who had this idea or missed the discussion, to ask for one on first start 
of Pd and not as an option to add it later... 

A very long discussion went on, part of which ended up as a proposal:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/152

There is a key in the GUI settings for the Documents path which can be set to "DISABLED" to avoid triggering the initial dialog. This is what is set when you select No.

Also, the documents directory handling is implemented as a plugin, so it could be deleted or renamed to avoid it entirely.

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