Re: spatial stuff detail

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

John Siracusa wrote:

> As far as I know, OS X only scans a few "well-known" locations
> (/Applications, ~/Applications, etc.)  Otherwise it uses the "demand-paged"
> system described above.  In practice, it is usually transparent to the user.
> Very few users need to look up help for an application that:
>
> * has never been launched AND
> * has never been manipulated or even seen in the Finder AND
> * is not in one of the "well-known" app dirs
>
> -John
>  

But then AppFolders won't work well in Linux. There are lots of users 
who will launch the app from the commandline, or from a file manager 
that doesn't support "AppFolder installation".