Re: [OT] Software Delivery (was Re: Why do "loose" nibs take precedence over nibs in .lproj?)
Re: [OT] Software Delivery (was Re: Why do "loose" nibs take precedence over nibs in .lproj?)
- Subject: Re: [OT] Software Delivery (was Re: Why do "loose" nibs take precedence over nibs in .lproj?)
- From: Ryan Stevens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:15:19 -0800
On Jan 23, 2005, at 4:22 AM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
At 7:00 Uhr -0500 22.01.2005, Charlton Wilbur wrote:
Also, there will be a central repository of plugins, both official
and user-created. (Part of the incentive to allow the computer to
phone home and verify its registration is that the user will be
notified of new plugins for download.) Is it reasonable (with the
user's explicit permission, of course) to download these to the
desktop and allow the user to deposit them wherever he or she wishes?
Or is it preferable to download them directly to where they belong,
perhaps by using user defaults? In particular, I'd like to leave it
up to the user whether to use the system-wide Library or the
user-specific Library.
I like the approach taken by System Preferences, Adium and the likes:
Build the installer for your plugins into your app. Register your
plugin type as a document type for your app and, when the user opens
one of the plugins, have your app copy it to ~/Library/Application
Support/MyApp/Plugins/.
Display a message telling them this was done and that they can now get
rid of the file if they want.
I'd rather you display a message telling me what you will do, with an
option to cancel in case I want to put it in /Library/.... ;-)
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