A Cry for a Built In Menu Search!

How well do you know the menu systems of your editing software? There is always that one thing you have to google to find where it is hiding in the menus. Why can’t these software makers design a menu search on the menu bar? It would be faster than hunting for that damn liquify tool. Just type it in and let it populate. I have hunted for to long! Would this help your work flow? Am I just that much of a noob? Can these big software companies help us out?

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Tom Barker
It’s built into OS X under the help menu… Don’t know if Windows has such functionality though.
http://www.elliottmontello.co.uk Elliott.G.Montello
Nah your just a noob ;) lol
zeddik
It’s already there.. You just have to click Help, and type in the menu you’re looking for! For example, if you type: “Liquify” and hover over the help suggestion, it will automatically open the overlying menu, and show you where Liquify is!
http://www.jerritpruyn.com Jerrit Pruyn
I want it on the bar! I don’t want to click another menu when you have the room.
Carsten Schlipf
That’s a great feature of the Unity Desktop that comes with Ubuntu. It’s a native, global features for all program menus. And IMHO that’s the right way to go – it should be a consistent OS feature.
http://www.jerritpruyn.com Jerrit Pruyn
I have my ubuntu up right now and do love it, app launcher is nice
Carsten Schlipf
Too bad there is no Lightroom and no Photoshop available for it.
http://twitter.com/0verbythere Dan Clarke
The OS X idea would work the same.. you still have to click to type into the menu idea you suggest.. so same amount of clicks as the help option.. click and type straight away.
http://www.jerritpruyn.com Jerrit Pruyn
Why would they leave this out for windows? Do all the adobe products have this?… Lightroom and Premier ?
http://twitter.com/davisdelo Davis DeLo
It’s a feature of OS X not Adobe’s software, it’s available in every program on the Mac no matter who the vendor is.
http://www.jerritpruyn.com Jerrit Pruyn
Great feature, I was thinking of designing an autoit script you could run to do this. Problem is I would have to research and write a script for every menu item per program. I am just too lazy.
http://profile.yahoo.com/H3N2AAX42CFI5VF26MKMDYYKOE Nicholas
That would be awesome. There would be less need for keyboard shortcuts memorization.
http://tambnguyen.com/ Tam Nguyen Photography
Amen.
http://twitter.com/sarobar Sarobar Kasaju
Let’s post this on Adobe’s Form. This is great Idea. They should also enable creating custom shortcut for toolbar like toggling between auto select layer etc.
http://www.facebook.com/tengku Tengku Jasshwa
One day, Photoshop® will hopefully move from layer based editing to node based software such as the like of Sonic Foundry Nuke. Then it will be easy to implement the filter just by typing it in, as well as taking the non-destructive capability to a whole new level.
http://www.facebook.com/brandon.magpantay Brandon Magpantay
It’s already built in Mac OS X -_-
http://www.facebook.com/people/Igor-InvisibleSounds-Butckhrikidze/723953185 Igor InvisibleSounds Butckhrik
why u need this quick search? i think its not necessary )
http://twitter.com/bobbigmac Rob Davies
Blender has this on every context-menu and it’s very very useful, especially since Blender has more options/tools than I’ve had hot dinners ;)
http://twitter.com/plrang Plrang GFX
PS stuck with its interface in 90ties
ryan scherding
there is one, are you too lazy to click on the help button located mere millimeters from your proposed search bar. learn your menus and shortcuts and photoshop will be your friend, rely on a search bar and you’ll never learn the software.
ryan scherding
its not memorization, you learn the shortcuts by USING THE SOFTWARE
http://www.jerritpruyn.com Jerrit Pruyn
Sorry Ryan I found out that Mac OSX has this and W7 doesn’t. Things are changing and menus need to be redesigned.
http://www.facebook.com/shannon.wimberly1 Shannon Wimberly
if it weren’t for Bill Gates…. man would already be on mars…. there would be a cure for aids…. and there would not be high world-wide unemployment……. :/

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