48872 - Mozilla/Mac should have "searchplugins" folder same as other platoforms.

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect, P3)

Description

[Ryoichi Furukawa]

Mozilla/Mac have a folder named "Search Plugins" different from Win/Linux platforms.
On Win/Linux platform, this folder is named "searchplugins". (It does not have a black)

I think Mozilla should  have a same folder name on any platform.

This problem influence a making XPI file including search plugins.
We must prepare two XPI files? (for Mac platform and for any platforms)

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

Change component to search, reassign to rjc.

Comment 2

[Robert John Churchill]

Mac folder names are words and easily human readable... other examples include
"Essential Files".

Comment 3

[MUTSURO Akira]

lang-pack  is not dependent on platform.
however --   MacOS   others platform   folder name differs.
To lang-pack   If Search-Plugins is included, you have to pack only MacOS 
independently.
Japan  lang-pack developer Search-Plugins In order to change by lang-pack  It 
put into lang-pack.
To however, a Search-Plugins sake   It is dependent on platform.

I think Mozilla should  have a same folder name on any platform.

Comment 4

[msanz]

verifying wontfix

Comment 5

[MUTSURO Akira]

Is it good in "Search-Plugins" or "Search_Plugins"?

It desires for a folder name to be the same on all platforms.

Comment 6

[Koike Kazuhiko]

We have to make two XPI packages now. It's not acceptable.

Comment 7

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

A simple folder difference should not be the cause of creating two XPInstall 
packages for otherwise cross-platform content.  If you're having trouble doing 
things with XPInstall you should post to the netscape.public.mozilla.xpinstall 
newsgroup or file feature requests -- how else will we know what things need 
fixing or redesigning?

First, someone should file an enhancement request for a search plugins target 
for the getFolder() method that will return the correct location on all 
platforms.

Secondly, even without that new feature the XPInstall script could--as an ugly 
workaround--simply install those files within an if statement that picks two 
different folder names based on which platform you're on. How do you know 
you're on Mac? Try calling getFolder("Mac System") -- if it comes back null you 
aren't on a Mac, if it's non-null then you are.

The Mac folk absolutely insist on "pretty" names in the visible top level 
directory. Windows folks probably don't care, but unix folk tend not to like 
spaces in file or directory names. Impasse. Perhaps it could be hidden inside 
the "Essential Files" folder on the Mac, but then again you have a difference.