On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Peter Plessas <plessas@mur.at> wrote:

What about this:
Perhaps indicate the successful loading of those files in the post
window instead of posting an error message when the files are not around.
I routinely check the Pd window for errors at startup, and stumble
accross the gem.conf "error" messages. Wait, hu? What's there? (relief)
oh, only the new gem feature. :-)
Since gem.config is an optional and probly very useful mechanism
changing the way the file loading mechanism reports back might make the
current "problem" much less of an issue?


From the usability perspective, that's trivial. Don't say error when there's no error.  What about "foreach error: no more elements in array"? :) Just think how many people feel alerted just when Make says "Nothing to do" :))
When there is no conf file found anywhere, that case could throw an error - of course only if at least one conf file is required or recommended.

Andras