Installable - Add-on Workbench

[keithsloan52]

With a new style installable Workbench on Linux the repro gets installed into .FreeCAD/Mod/<Workbench Name>

How is a user supposed to find Sample files etc via the normal FreeCAD facilities?

[Syres]

Would it be unrealistic to expect the Wb author to create a command that creates a File>Open dialog pointing to FreeCAD.getUserAppDataDir() /Mod/WbName/Samples for example? The fonts dialog button in Draft>Shapestring taskpanel comes to mind though for different reasons.

[keithsloan52]

Would it be unrealistic to expect the Wb author to create a command that creates a File>Open dialog pointing to FreeCAD.getUserAppDataDir() /Mod/WbName/Samples for example? The fonts dialog button in Draft>Shapestring taskpanel comes to mind though for different reasons.

But that means an extra icon/command, surely FreeCAD basic File>Open should also offer access to other directories in .FreeCAD/Mod

[yorik]

surely FreeCAD basic File>Open should also offer access to other directories in .FreeCAD/Mod

Not sure how that could/should be done cleanly.
I also think the WB author should solve that themselves. I would go for having an "open example..." menu item, which pops up a Qt File Open dialog in the right folder. Alternatively, you could have your WB perform a check on first run and copy example files to the FreeCAD examples folder, but I'm not sure this is such a good idea to mix things that way... Seems a better idea to keep example files inside the WB folder so they are easier updatable/uninstallable