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[Tobias Weber <towb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21.07.2010, at 11:23, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:

> Have a look at the website there are instruction on how to get zim work using mac ports.

I was not referring to the MacPorts project. I don't use it because I want native Gtk without X11.

> Zim should definitely be able to work without desktop entry files.

It cannot save preferences when no file browser is selected, for example.

> In fact I run it daily on windows without any XDG support.

Windows is special-cased in the source and uses os.startfile, which is not available on OS X.