On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Pavel Sanda <[email protected]> wrote: > BH wrote: >> > The "copy solution" was rejected by Pavel in the thread "Re: Beta plans >> > (again, again)" >> > on 17th of September. But I see no other easy and fast solution, currently. >> >> It should perhaps be noted that copying templates, etc. into >> ~/Library/Application Support is quite common for applications on Mac. > > my voice was mainly against blind copying of templates inside the _users_ > templates, > ie ~/.lyx/templates on linux platform. thats for specific stuff user invent > for himself. > > if there is a habit to copy all documentation files which are on linux world > somewhere in /usr/share/ into ~/Library/Application Support for each user > again its just stupid, but i dont object strongly against adding it into > mac specific code if its normal thing on mac.
Perhaps I should also note: the current LyX/Mac installer creates a "default" folder inside the LyX User's templates, and copies LyX's templates there (i.e., ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-x.y/templates/default). However, nothing is done to try to prevent users from modifying these templates. Consequently, when the installer is run and finds an existing .../templates/default folder, it asks the user whether it's OK to overwrite this folder. Another note: not all documentation is copied to ~/Library/Application Support, only those files that might be changed by users. So for example BibDesk -- a popular BibTeX database manager on Mac -- has export templates that it copies to ~/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/Templates. That said, I'm not pushing for the current solution, which has many disadvantages. In any case, I do think we should try to get rid of the installer as a separate application. Bennett
