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