Plugins got translated as Plug-Ins in German and so the default path for plugins is .../MuseScore2/Plug-Ins when using Geman settings, just like default part for scores is .../MuseScore2/Partituren
My mistake was that I'm using both the German and the English version and so there's both the folder "plugins" and the folder "Plug-Ins" in the MuseScore directory. In such a case there's possibly an error source, when you copy a plugin in the wrong folder (the difference isn't not so obviously as i.e. the folder names between "templates" and "Vorlagen").
But I suggest in General case you've only the folder names for your used language settings in the MuseScore directory (?), so that there will be no confusion for the user.
(And I sea it's more a case for translation as for the issue tracker)
Yes, switching between languafges might be troublesome here.
The point might be to not translated these path names at all, or have symbolic links in place, unfortunatly we can't have them in Windows
OK, mklink exists only Vista and later and needs NTFS, so won't work on FAT(nn) nor XP. Might still be worth it.
And as far as my tests show this does indeed work: 'mklink /j Plug-Ins Plugins'.
It would need to be done at install time though, or on first run of MuseScore, and then most probably programatically via some API.
Currently we use QDir::mkpath() and I can't seem to find an mkLink() or some such
I've used QT a long time ago a little bit from curiosity (the time of KDE 1 desktop enviroment), but I never got beyond to the well famous "hello world" or creating some boxes or menu entries ;-).
(My other experiences/references in programing are gw-basic and qbasic ;)
But maybe this could be helpful (qprocess::execute)?:
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I believe that is due to the (German) translation. And as such by design
So it's more an issue by translation for the next versions (I didn't used transifex not yet)?
Plugins got translated as Plug-Ins in German and so the default path for plugins is .../MuseScore2/Plug-Ins when using Geman settings, just like default part for scores is .../MuseScore2/Partituren
My mistake was that I'm using both the German and the English version and so there's both the folder "plugins" and the folder "Plug-Ins" in the MuseScore directory. In such a case there's possibly an error source, when you copy a plugin in the wrong folder (the difference isn't not so obviously as i.e. the folder names between "templates" and "Vorlagen").
But I suggest in General case you've only the folder names for your used language settings in the MuseScore directory (?), so that there will be no confusion for the user.
(And I sea it's more a case for translation as for the issue tracker)
Yes, switching between languafges might be troublesome here.
The point might be to not translated these path names at all, or have symbolic links in place, unfortunatly we can't have them in Windows
Concerning symbolic links in Windows: At least in "cmd" I thought you've a command "mlink"?
does it work for directories?
http://www.tecchannel.de/a/symlinks-unter-windows-nutzen,2032826
OK, mklink exists only Vista and later and needs NTFS, so won't work on FAT(nn) nor XP. Might still be worth it.
And as far as my tests show this does indeed work: 'mklink /j Plug-Ins Plugins'.
It would need to be done at install time though, or on first run of MuseScore, and then most probably programatically via some API.
Currently we use QDir::mkpath() and I can't seem to find an mkLink() or some such
I've used QT a long time ago a little bit from curiosity (the time of KDE 1 desktop enviroment), but I never got beyond to the well famous "hello world" or creating some boxes or menu entries ;-).
(My other experiences/references in programing are gw-basic and qbasic ;)
But maybe this could be helpful (qprocess::execute)?:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21011063/qt-create-link-between-fold…
Uhh, mean hack.
Upps ;-).