[PD] Call for GSoC mentors! March 9th deadline!

[Enrique Erne]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Enrique Erne wrote:
> 
>> - with self explaining naming?
> 
> The problem with that is that long names still don't say how it works, 
> and as people learn how it works, they don't need long names anymore, 
> and it gets in the way a bit. What you need is not long names, it's a 
> system so that mouseover would show the descriptions that you'd 
> otherwise look up in help-intro.pd, and that are often missing for 
> externals.

wasn't that tooltip feature implement in desiredata? maybe one could 
port this as a own GSoC project to puredata.

i don't think names have to be fully self explaining, but at least that 
you get the clue of what the abstraction might do. rjlib and pdmtl seems 
pretty nice.