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Well, before I figured it out, I was surprised - pleasantly!  It turned 
unpleasant only later :)

Yes, it was the Get Monomer dialog, but would apply to the "Search 
Monomer Lib" as well.



> Frank von Delft wrote:
>> Hmmmm...
>> What I read when I select from the menu is the menu label, not the 
>> manual.  Yes, *now* I know it should take 30 seconds :)
>>
>> I suggest a little radio-button to select between "re-generate fresh 
>> from library" and "use existing in working dir" or something like that.
>> I don't mind what the feature does, only not knowing about it :)
>>>
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> [After sleeping on it]
>
> Like good software, Coot has pretensions of  being able to be used 
> without reading the manual.  The naive user will not expect to wait 
> for libcheck to run (there is no progress bar, for example) and will 
> not be surprised when things appear instantaneously ("that's the way 
> things should happen, right? - its a GUI program") and will not read 
> or check the console where the libcheck/refmac is run (or not).
>
> I take you points on board completely.  I will add the interface you 
> suggest (for the record, it will not be straightforward to do so).
> Oh, I presume that we are talking about "Get Monomer"?  ("Search 
> Monomer Library" only partially uses the same underlying code and will 
> have to be modified differently.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul.