[Qgis-developer] Some concerns about QGIS on OS X, part 2

[Mac Programmer]

Unmac-ish behavior:

- Non-native dialogs.

- Open dialog doesn't show other mounted volumes.

- ~/.qgis   This is a goofy Linux trick that unfortunately Finder  
honors, meaning it's difficult to browse your plugins with Finder  
unless you know the trick of entering ~/.qgis in Finder's Go | Go to  
folder. Why not put the plugins in ~/Library somewhere, maybe under  
Preferences or Plug-ins or something?

- Case-sensitive list in Plugin Manager. Only in some weird Unix  
world would I think to look for fTools at the bottom of an  
alphabetical list. OS X file system is case insensitive. Lists should  
be too.

- Too many Linux assumptions. See page 42 in user guide:

     Your action text now looks like this:
   firefox http://google.com/search?q=%NAMES

Wrong. On OS X, Firefox is an app bundle (folder) named Firefox.app  
which will not be in the path. Even if it were, this is the wrong way  
to launch any app with OS X. Instead, enter something like this:

open "http://google.com/search?q=%NAME"

This launches whatever the default browser is on the system, so you  
don't need to know its name or path.


Thanks.

-Phil

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