Didn't ask; don't care.
-Chris
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That may be true. But I'd hazard to guess that most KM users are NOT programmers, and that usage is likely lost on them. Maybe I missed it in the many programming languages I have used/studied, but its intended usage in KM did NOT popout to me.
I may add that it would be useful if the palette could be resized like all other palettes,
but maybe this is complicated?
While what @DrMajorBob is true, I would even go beyond @JMichaelTX's comment and argue that this is a problem even for programmers. The connotation of "Conflict" is something bad, and therefore something particularly to be avoided in a good UI. We allāor at least all native English speakersābring to the table our understanding of words from their common English language meanings.
I also only recently discovered the usefulness of the "Conflict" palette, and had similarly been deterred by the name. As someone who spent many years working in software protocols for device connectivity standards, I learned the importance of careful choices in terminology. Along with this, I also learned that no matter how precisely you define a term for use in a technical context, if there is dissonance between the technical definition and the commonly understood definition, compliance will suffer because of human misinterpretations. So, in our "Conflict Palette" context, this means it is harder for people initially to wrap their mind around the positive usage.
I don't want to put words in Peter's mouth, but I would speculate that he originally picked the term "Conflict" to give the user an out when two or more different macros were inadvertently assigned the same shortcut. But the usage has grown, and I add my vote for a name change.
My suggestions are
- Choice Palette
- Option Palette
- Alternative Palette
I don't like the term "Auto-Palette", because the "auto" refers to how the palette appears, not what its function is.
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I'm not quite sure what the resize issue is, since my palette auto-sizes according the the number of macros included and the length of their names.
But I am very interested in more appearance control. I have some color vision deficiencies, and I would like to have more control over the three critical colors, background, text, and selection characters so that I can have a pleasing appearance, high legibility, and easy recognition of selection characters.
This x1000
I made a thread not so long ago asking for this same thing
EDIT: Found it, but yours is better.
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Resizing conflict palettes is currently impossible, I agree with your requests even though I believe they are not at the top of the list of future improvements.
+1 Auto-Palette
or KMPalette or Maestro Palette
*bump