So, I'm making a list of things that would improve the experience.
- Decide on possible better standard user/global folders for Mac (maybe windows too?) like it was done for linux.
- Have the Pd install create those folders for you.
- Deken can then suggest the user folder in the first time ever that it runs (which is not doing even with the new feature). User can change it and it'll remember the choice between restarts (this feature has been implemented already).
First things first, but there'd be more to think about.
- Documentation:
Installing in the application specific folder is tricky, and not much can be done as it's something to do with the system allowing write privileges. The option is to make a better documentation about it. I could do that, and I've already started an extensive "howto manage externals" tutorial.
- Adding a Path to Pd's preferences:
This has also been discussed, but with better standard folders, some issues with adding the path to Pd's preferences is automatically solved, as you could now easily navigate there. But dealing with the application specific folder is still a pain in Mac Os - I just had to guide someone on the facebook group to manage that.
2017-02-18 3:03 GMT-02:00 Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com>:
I have to say I never got the main idea of this example, but it should be easy to have an option to automatically navigate to the application's extra folder somehow.
Will all this, I think installing externals from deken or not would be an actual painless experience.
cheers