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  1. Qt Installer Framework
  2. QTIFW-1011

Qt Installer Framework 3.0 macOS returns $HOME/Applications instead of /Applications for @ApplicationsDir@

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P3: Somewhat important
    • 4.4.0 Beta
    • 3.0.1, 3.1.1
    • General
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    • macOS

    Description

      In 2.0.1, 2.0.5-2, @ApplicationsDir@ refers to /Applications as expected.

      In 3..0.1, @ApplicationsDir@ is implemented as follows:

      packagemanagercoredata.cpp: around line 114, commit # 7e91db5b1e01ffeeaa566ebb5b8230dcdc6b514f on GitHub in qtproject/installer-framework

      #elif defined (Q_OS_OSX)

          dir = QStandardPaths::standardLocations(QStandardPaths::ApplicationsLocation).value(0);

      #endif

      However, the first element of the list of application locations is $HOME/Applications, and the second element of the list is "/Applications".

       

      The documentation at http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstandardpaths.html#standardLocations indicates that some standard location queries return a list, in which the first location is writable. The documentation at http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstandardpaths.html#StandardLocation-enum is wrong (or imprecise at least) as it does not show that a list is returned for macOS. This can be seen easily: EG: Using PyQt 5.7 and Qt 5.7.1: 

      Python 3.5.3 (default, Jan 21 2017, 15:44:58)
      [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)] on darwin
      Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
      >>> from PyQt5.QtCore import *
      >>> print ("Standard applications location ", QStandardPaths.standardLocations (QStandardPaths.ApplicationsLocation))
      >>> Standard applications location ['/Users/chrisc/Applications', '/Applications']

      quit ()

      My suggestion is that you add another ApplicationsDir-like variable to the installer, as you did for Windows x86 and x64 binaries. (That was helpful by the way!)

       

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            arttu.tarkiainen Arttu Tarkiainen
            chrischandler Christopher Chandler
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