Now, in order to make this more like how we've been dealing with "standard path", could the "externals install directory" also load its contents to the "help browser"? 

That would take one issue out of the way. But it doesn't have to be "now".

cheers

2017-07-31 0:24 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com>:
As the someone who's been nagging the most about this, let me say:

- I love all that there is to it.
- Best feature added, hands down.
- This is wonderful, you're the man. Sorry if I drove you crazy.

Yes, there are issues I already brought up and I'm still concerned with them, but I wanna make it clear that they don't translate to any sort of objection to these features. So I just hope this is taken and included on the next release, and we deal with those issues in appropriate timing. 

cheers and thanks for being awesome and doing awesome stuff

2017-07-30 21:32 GMT-03:00 Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com>:
Here is my *working* proposal for beginner-friendliness: the Pd Documents directory. Also includes deken-workingness.

Thanks to Miller for the new "add-to-path" message.


The documents path is an optional beginner-friendly location for patches and externals and defaults to USERHOME/Documents/Pd. If the docs path is not set when Pd is started, the user is prompted about creating it and it can be changed or disabled in the Path preferences dialog. If the user hits Cancel, the docs path functionality is disabled. A subdirectory for externals is also created and is set as the deken install directory. Once set, the docs path becomes the preferred initial directory for file dialogs to help those new to filesystem hierarchy. 

Included in this work: deken can now optionally add external directories to the user search paths via a popup after download.

*mic drop*

sleep



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