On 03/02/2017 10:26 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
2017-03-02 18:08 GMT-03:00 Roman Haefeli reduzent@gmail.com:
Deken should not ask you to download there, if it can't write there. If it still does, it might be a bug.
it's just a last ditch effort, it's gotta ask you to download somewhere...
by now i think it is rather like this: if deken doesn't find a writable folder, it will just open the directory-browser wherever Pd currently is (in its working-directory). this directory might happen to be writable or not. it is not a suggestion to blindly accept.
That's why they have their user specific folder.
Well, they don't for Pd... at least for now...
well, they do. they just have to create them :-)
Anyway, at least don't teach that to anybody, even if you believe it works well for you.
It has a particularity... it makes a difference wether you install in the global, user or application. In the case of an application, it'll only be valid for that Pd app, so you can have multiple Pds or Pd-Extended along side it. So, well, yeah, I think we should tell people that they can do it if they want to...
i don't think so. take any well-established software that allows you to install addons from the net, e.g. firefox. it *is* possible to install firefox-addons systemwide, but *you cannot* do so via its built-in addon manager.
i'm pretty sure they put some decent thought into that.
you're not supposed to do that. Users don't write there for security
reasons.
ok, maybe warn people... but it doesn't seem too dangerous anyway, more of an annoyance. I mean, I never knew other operating systems had issues with it, I could always do it in Mac OS and always have...
it's not that they have issues. they have *features* (and i mean it)
i suppose you are running OSX as an "admin" user. you can do quite a number of things on the filesystem as "admin" on OSX without being prompted for your password, e.g. if you are brave enough to use the terminal.
gfds IOhannes