Re: MP3 players? Linux? I'm not sure, but I know there's hate

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: MP3 players? Linux? I'm not sure, but I know there's hate
Date: 15:29 on 22 Apr 2005
> 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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