i think all of your suggestions (with he noteable exception of changing some default values for the available settings) are out of reach for Pd-0.52.
Sure enough!

I think for now the safest "solution" would be to disable Only show the newest version of a library by default, so there won't be any complaints. For the next (minor) release we can think about the best "real" solution. What do you think?

I will open a ticket about my two column search results suggestion and maybe even try a PR.


(i'm not saying that these new issues are not valid; only that there would have been plenty of time to notice them beforehand)
Yes, it's certainly the worst possible time to come up with these complaints. Actually, I did test the most recent Deken release but I didn't notice the new default values because those are stored in the Windows registry.

After reading "pd_guiprefs.tcl" I learned the following trick: exporting PD_CONFIG_DIR will force Pd to read the GUI preferences from a file and ignore the settings in the registry. Since the file doesn't exist (yet), it will start without any GUI preferences. I will do that in the future whenever I test a new Pd or Deken version.

Christof

On 28.11.2021 21:15, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
On 11/28/21 16:37, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
I guess this makes sense from a design point of view.

thanks for all your inputs and mockups.

you can (as always) file *directed* tickets at
 <https://github.com/pure-data/deken/issues>

(but please let's not start any *discussions* there, as they quickly get out of bounds).

in any case:
i think all of your suggestions (with he noteable exception of changing some default values for the available settings) are out of reach for Pd-0.52.
the code changes required are simply too much for the next weeks (i hope that Pd-0.52 will be released this year or very early next year).


otoh, deken-0.7 (which has all the behaviour your noticed) has been announced more than 8 months ago.
i have received feedback for the 0.7 release from various people, but i don't remember anyone raising the issues you are raising now (i'm not saying that these new issues are not valid; only that there would have been plenty of time to notice them beforehand)


cheers and happy patching.

gdsarm
IOhannes

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