On Nov 11, 2015, at 8:20 AM, René J.V. Bertin 
<rjvber...@gmail.com<mailto:rjvber...@gmail.com>> wrote:

On Wednesday November 11 2015 16:03:31 Petroules Jake wrote:

I don't understand, what do you mean with "there is only one location"?

I mean the API returns a single value, not a list. However, READable locations 
will return a list containing both $HOME/Applications and /Applications

Ah. I hadn't even considered returning a list, just returning 
$HOME/Applications - at least when not running with elevated privileges.

As to what users expect: has there been a poll or other evaluation of whether 
people actually have an expectation about what the writable 
ApplicationsLocation should be? It seems that given the nature of the location 
on OS X, there is more reason not to use the writable variant than there is to 
use it. It seems rather evident that applications ported from the Freedesktop 
universe shouldn't use ApplicationsLocation to install or search for .desktop 
files, for instance.

.desktop files are not used on OS X.

One could maybe even argue that the only relevant location would be 
ApplicationLocation (without the 's'), which would translate to the parent of 
the running application's app bundle (which would be /Applications for 
applications installed via the App Store). As I said, app bundles are supposed 
to be relocatable, and /Applications is just where Apple decided to put them by 
default.

5.7 I think. https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/122044/

Time enough to incorporate a patch for 5.5.1+ and 5.6 , or do you prefer to 
wait until someone messes up /System/Library/Fonts by accident like I did with 
/Applications? ;)

On 10.11 you can't - SIP will block writes to /System. ;)

Feel free to do whatever you like for test mode but do not change the existing 
writable paths.

R

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Consulting Services Engineer - The Qt Company, Inc.

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