I have thought about this before and yes I would do it, as long as the .info is and will be the main domain for the foreseeable future. We should consider adding a detection mechanism that checks if the new settings exist and, if not, imports the old settings. Perhaps this can be a dialog which pops up asking if the import is desired? In any case, a transition should be well-communicated so no one is surprised, ie. I have some scripts to swap out configurations which expect a certain path, etc.

On Aug 11, 2023, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

so my question is: could (and should) we switch the app-id from 
"org.puredata..." to "info.puredata...", just in case we ever need to 
*prove* that "we" actually own the domain.

there are of course caveats:
Pd uses the "org.puredata" namespace for storing settings:
- the GUI settings (on all platforms)
- on macOS it is used for storing the "normal" Pd-settings as well

so changing the namespace to "info.puredata" will discard all settings.



what do you think?

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