location of folders in Mac OS X (and probably on others?)
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:19 pm
hi,
can't see any dictionaries or plugins after what I thought
is a more standard Mac OS X installation procedure (Oxygen 3.1):
The Application can be draggged to the /Applications folder,
as expected. This works, and is highly desirable!
However, the dicts, and plugins folders are expected in the same place,
therefore I would have to place all these auxiliary directories
in the same directory as oxygen.app beside *all*other*applications*.
I have tried to find a way how to set the directory search path or
similar. In the About box
there is an (undocumented, helpwise?) tab displaying
property settings. One of them is
com.oxygenxml.editor.plugins.dir = /Applications/plugins
As you can see, the global place in /Applications is somewhat
unfortunate, because it is unclear to which app(s) this
plugins directory belongs.
Any suggestions? (I know I can just unpack Oxygen somewhere.
But installing applications just somewhere creates an installation
mess and I don't want to have to keep in mind which application
must be installed in which special way in which special places
when there is a standard procedure for the operating system in
question. Am I missing something?)
thanks, georg
can't see any dictionaries or plugins after what I thought
is a more standard Mac OS X installation procedure (Oxygen 3.1):
The Application can be draggged to the /Applications folder,
as expected. This works, and is highly desirable!
However, the dicts, and plugins folders are expected in the same place,
therefore I would have to place all these auxiliary directories
in the same directory as oxygen.app beside *all*other*applications*.
I have tried to find a way how to set the directory search path or
similar. In the About box
there is an (undocumented, helpwise?) tab displaying
property settings. One of them is
com.oxygenxml.editor.plugins.dir = /Applications/plugins
As you can see, the global place in /Applications is somewhat
unfortunate, because it is unclear to which app(s) this
plugins directory belongs.
Any suggestions? (I know I can just unpack Oxygen somewhere.
But installing applications just somewhere creates an installation
mess and I don't want to have to keep in mind which application
must be installed in which special way in which special places
when there is a standard procedure for the operating system in
question. Am I missing something?)
thanks, georg