On Mar 22, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: m.e.grimm <megr...@gmail.com> >> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com> >> Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at>; "pd-list@iem.at" <pd-list@iem.at> >> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 9:28 AM >> Subject: Re: [PD] search plugin revision >> >>> Also, the last time I tried Pd on OSX it had two "Preferences" >> menu items >> >> I remember that one. seems to be gone now.... >> >>> files, or make it go away entirely, >> >> might be better (easier?) to use available apple help search? a quick >> look i see mo way to get rid of it. there is a "Help Indexer tool" ... >> but seems this would be completely different than the plugin... > > I don't know why you can't type anything into that box. In Firefox it brings > up results about Safari and stuff, so it looks like a global help search. > Looks > like the Firefox devs just made some shortcuts to point to menu items in the > Apple help (or it generated them automatically with that toolkit but doesn't > with > Tcl/Tk). > > But I think the correct solution for the plug-in is to name it "Pd Help" or > "Pd > Help Browser" in the menu, then there is no confusion.
For me, searching is very useful, but does not replace browsing. But yes, a clearer name would be helpful. GNU/Linux and Windows do not have that blue search bar thing, so "Search" is a fully appropriate name there. Hopefully on OSX we can find out how to disable that blue thing or use it for the search plugin. .hc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Free software means you control what your computer does. Non-free software means someone else controls that, and to some extent controls you." - Richard M. Stallman _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
