suggestions about MacOS DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH patch

[James Mckenzie]

>On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Emmanuel Maillard<mahanuu at free.fr> wrote:
>> But it's an external appplication, your desktop environment, that handle
>> *.desktop file; wine just generate them...
>
>As per the private email I sent. I could see that working if we can
>convince Alexandre of the need of an external helper application for
>OS X. Keeping the existing winemenubuilder code mostly as is and
>having it write xdg menus and associations would be pretty simple. We
>could just change a few lines to have it write xdg in
>~/Library/Application Support/Wine/WineMenuBuilder
>
>> So don't choose ~/Applications but : /Applications/Wine or
>> let's the user to choose if want an Applications folder in is Homedir.
>
>The reason for using ~/Applications as opposed to /Applications is
>that Wine has no knowledge or real support for multi-user prefixes.
>Each .wine being local to the user that creates it will have their own
>applications, etc. If we write the menus to /Applications and another
>user logs in then they won't be able to run those applications.
Another good reason is that /Applications can only be written to by an administrative user using sudo.

James McKenzie