|
sffdb8 Posts: 20
03/06/2016
|
Excited to use SyMenu for all apps/utilities. Been setting it up for a few weeks now. Because I have so many programs, it's hard to locate many of them when I need them because I don't recall their name. That SyMenu searches in Description is great!
I'd like there to be another field entitled "Notes" for each program item: either a multi line text box (10-15 lines visible) and scrollable, or able to drag/resize the text box to show more lines (and still scrollable).
I've imported many descriptions into the program items (Reload Description button) and started to modify them to include tags I can search for, but decided:
1) I'd like to keep the program developer's description and have my notes/tags separate
2) Description, being a 1 line field, doesn't allow me to format notes like I want - e.g. a list of features that are important to me in columnar format instead of one long line that wraps in a tooltip
Would then like ability to search in Notes too and ability to configure that tooltip will also show Notes.
Great software - thanks!
Sam
|
|
|
link
|
|
Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
03/06/2016
|
Welcome Sam.
Your idea to have a multiline text area for the description is good. I have to find a way to give it a little space inside the configuration form but you can be sure I'll do that.
Why do you give up in inserting you tags inside the description? After you load the built in description you can add your custom tag without any problem.
I won't add another field for the notes above all if I make the description field more usable and larger so you have to use it for you tags.
|
|
|
link
|
|
sffdb8 Posts: 20
04/06/2016
|
Thanks - making the description field more usable and larger will help. I want multiple lines which is a bit awkward as is: line feeds work, but don't display in the description field. To make a change, I need to cut/paste to text editor, make changes, cut paste back to description field.
>> After you load the built in description you can add your custom tag without any problem.
True. My concern is regarding updates: I want to load the description from each update to see if any changes. This replaces my custom description (i.e. I need to manage it manually - either copy/paste, or don't save changes. Certainly manageable, but that was my primary reason: not mixing the developer's description with my own custom notes.
|
|
|
link
|
|
Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
05/06/2016
|
sffdb8 wrote:
My concern is regarding updates: I want to load the description from each update to see if any changes. This replaces my custom description (i.e. I need to manage it manually - either copy/paste, or don't save changes. Certainly manageable, but that was my primary reason: not mixing the developer's description with my own custom notes.
Well..usually you can't see a program news through its description. IMHO what you need is a visit to the "what's new" program/web site section. But, I'm not used to judge the users behavior, so let's examine your needs and see if any solution is viable.
1) you need to search the programs through custom tags.
2) you need a place where these custom tags must be located.
The first point is so important that I'm thinking about a revolutionary change in SPS itself. Today, during the installation process, the SPS takes the program description and fills the corresponding field in SyMenu. My idea is to add, at the end of this text, some tags taken from the SPS program categories. In that way the original SPS categories can be searched even in SyMenu and won't be lost.
An example:
In SPS the program CCleaner is classified with the categories "System - Disk Cleaners" and its description is "CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your PC. It protects your privacy and makes your computer faster and more secure!".
With this new feature the description of a fresh installed CCleaner becomes: "CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your PC. It protects your privacy and makes your computer faster and more secure! #System #DiskCleaners"
Naturally the built in tag system for SyMenu won't be a completely new thing but an old well known system, the hashtag.
An hashtag inside the description will become sacred. In case you reload the description from the program (build-in description not SPS description this time) the text will be analyzed and any hashtag will be saved and inserted again at the end of the new description.
It won't be necessary that the hashtag is inserted by the SPS engine. It can be a completely custom hashtag and it'll be untouchable the same. The only way to trash an hashtag inside a description is to delete it by hand... but if it is an SPS program, at the new update you will get it again.
So hashtag into the description for SPS will become mandatory, for other programs will be optional.
Naturally the SyMenu search tool is already able to search for a text like an hashtag... because it is a simple text with an # in front.
You won't have a new notes field but you will have a complete way to customize the program description through tags, and to search for your tags.
What do you think?
|
|
|
link
|
|
sffdb8 Posts: 20
05/06/2016
|
>> IMHO what you need is a visit to the "what's new" program/web site section
Agreed
>>What do you think?
That sounds great to me. Personally, I would find it even nicer if the Description field box was multi-line (re: line terminator) with option to wrap (if a line is wider than the box) and resizable.
|
|
|
link
|
|
sffdb8 Posts: 20
28/06/2016
|
Thank you! I really like the item description multiline textbox and the hashtags being preserved in latest version! Great stuff for me!! Thanks!
btw, I just donated $10 (Confirmation number: 3HP70752H8101705D). Much appreciated.
edited by sffdb8 on 28/06/2016
|
|
|
link
|