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> Pardon my Windows-based ignorance, but if certain kinds of apps didn't > install parts of themselves in certain other directories, how would they > talk with other apps? Apart from applications that are basically plugins (and which you can in many cases install just by doubleclicking ... the plugin extension gets caught by Finder and it passes them on to the app that needs it), this gets done the first time you run it. A lot of Winodws apps do the same thing, you can install them anywhere and they just work. Some of them do stupid things like stealing associations, but so do a lot of apps that use installers... that's a problem with the specific application, not the general design. [insert great heaving gobs of corrosive hate about Adobe Acrobat here, thanks] > I'm thinking of things that associate file types to them, or that talk to > other apps, such as Firefox determining it's the default browser, or > iTunes owning .mp3s, or such. In Mac OS X this information is stored in a standard property list in the app, so when you open it Finder adds it to the LaunchServices database.There's stuff above here
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