[PD] deken hiding non-newest versions of each library (Re: Pd 0.52 test 2 is out)

[Christof Ressi]

> 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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