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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE4 proposal: Paths in i18n strings
From:       "Gary L. Greene Jr." <greeneg () phoenuxos ! com>
Date:       2006-07-03 22:24:45
Message-ID: 200607031824.56369.greeneg () phoenuxos ! com
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On Monday 03 July 2006 17:39, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Gary L. Greene Jr. <greeneg@phoenuxos.com> wrote:
> > Most Mac development literature from Apple says that if the application
> > is one being used by the end user, the paths should be represented in
> > the "volume:Path:To:File" format. The only time it should be output
> > as /Path/To/File is in console applications. Mind you, this makes it a
> > little inconsistent, but this is what most Mac users are accustomed to.
>
> Where?  I think the only thing that expects ":" is carbon stuff that
> is meant to be source-compatible with OS9.  :'s are OS9 things, they
> have no bearing on modern (ie unix-based) Mac OS X other than
> backwards-compatibility with APIs Qt doesn't use, AFAIK.
>
> For the whole Qt/Mac port everything's been done under the assumption
> that paths are like other unixes, and it works fine.

Benjamin, it appears my info was from an older Apple HIG (from around the 
release of 10.0) I've checked the current Apple HIG ad it appears that now 
they state that the path separator should be the UNIX '/'. Sorry for the 
mis-information to others on this.

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