On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 00:08 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Atte André Jensen hat gesagt: // Atte André Jensen wrote: > > > My paths section in my preferences is full, and I need to ad another. > > remember there was some discussion recently about how to add more, but I > > can't seem to find it. Could anyone refresh my memory? > > Hm, this gets asked (and answered) once every 1.5 weeks. What can we > do about it?
It is also one of the most frequent questions I get asked when I introduce new users to PD. Personally I think the entire 'search paths' window is badly designed. I have a few ideas about how it might be improved: 1/ 'Save all settings' and 'Apply' should be removed. 2/ The path list should have a dynamically generated scrollbar, so that when the list exceeds a certain length (10), the scrollbar appears and the user can view the additional paths by scrolling up/down. 3/ It should not be possible to type directly into the path list, only select a list element or group of elements (paths). 4/ Two new buttons should be added directly underneath the path list: 'Add' and 'Remove'. 5/ 'Add' opens a new dialog ('Select path...') whereby the user can either enter a path or navigate to it using a filesystem browser widget. Once the path has been entered (or selected), clicking 'OK' adds the path to the path list and closes the 'Select path...' dialogue. 6/ Clicking 'Remove' in the main 'path list' window will remove the currently selected item(s) from the path list. 7/ Clicking 'OK' will commit changes to disk, apply them for the current session and close the window. 8/ Clicking 'Cancel' will discard the changes and close the window. Just a few thoughts. If anyone else thinks this is a good idea, I would happily put a feature request on the tracker. best, Jamie -- www.postlude.co.uk _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list