[PD] pd 0.39 - window behaviour

hi all,

sorry for bringing this up again, it has been widely discussed before:

i wanted to join the party complaining about the new behaviour of prompting the user to save his/her work in PD 0.39. for me this is definitely a step in the wrong direction though i can uinderstand the pros.

for me as an enthusiatic PD-user, one of the big advantages of PD over let's say MAX, is that editing can be done so fast and fluent. starting from the ctrl-1 etc. shortcuts for objects, messages etc. (a concept that saves hours of mouse-moving and that MAX still doesn't offer) to the ability to edit abstractions without having to open the orginal first.

now, with PD 0.39 editing time has increased a fair amount because of all this endless confirming dialogues and the main PD window getting focus after doing so. also, i really don't understand why a window that hasn't been changed at all gets a "dirty" flag (as it is now with PD'S help patches) and why editing an abstraction also sets the "dirty" flag to the main patcher window.

if miller has are really good reasons to keep with this - too bad for me. but someone suggested a kind of preferences thing where the user can change these behaviours individually (plus the possibility of defining shortcuts).

now that would be a compromise i could live with.

please consider ! don't slow down PD ! ;-)

thanks for listening to my mourning

oliver