[PD] search plugin revision

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 22, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>> From: m.e.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com>
>> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>; "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at 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



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