First comment is that you need to know the player: settings do change by
player type (slimp3, sb, transporter).

It is scheduled for an update, but even in 6.5 the setting mechanism is
entirely dynamic. The code builds up some data structure in memory which
is then used to display the HTML.

As a first idea then, the table you want is *almost* in the code today.
Maybe a way to create the table is to have some clever routine dump the
in memory data structure... This has the advantage of easy regeneration
if something gets changed! Making the table is easy, keeping it up to
date is the hard part!

Another idea might be something similar to the OS X spotlight
mechanism... It does index the terms in the preferences (so if you
search, say, brightness, it finds "Display preferences")... What I am
saying is we could have the server itself propose a search option for
the setting texts. We'd get translation as a benefit. Practically,
maybe we need to add an invisible "tag" or "keyword" to the data for
searching. 
That would be self-updating and on-location (but could not cover player
initial setup).

Fred


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