Hi,
I just had a close shave with losing my whole /Applications directory which
ultimately was caused by the fact that Qt5 provides a QStandardPaths class,
which returns "/Applications" for both the readable and writable versions of
"ApplicationsLocation".
The application using that return value was actually testing access to the
directory that's supposed to hold Freedesktop style .desktop files
(${prefix}/share/applications), not actual app bundles.
That confusion aside, there is the question what this location
(QStandardPaths::ApplicationsLocation) should be in a MacPorts build of Qt:
- should it return /Applications/MacPorts (or whatever ${applications_dir} is
set to) instead of /Applications?
- should the writable version return $HOME/Applications (or something similarly
"safe")?
And if one were to consider a patched version of QStandardPaths (QSP) that
returns XDG/Freedesktop/"Linuxy" locations which are more appropriate for ports
that follow Freedesktop standards, like KDE (KF5):
- should it return ${prefix}/share/applications so that .desktop files are
installed to that location instead of somewhere under /Applications?
I'm guessing that the answer to that last question is yes, but that kind of
begs the questioning of certain of the other standard locations defined by QSP,
like DesktopLocation .
I'd really appreciate your thoughts on this, I think it's not without a certain
importance.
R.
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