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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: what's this updates
From:       "Dawit A." <adawit () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-08-20 1:57:36
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On Tuesday 19 August 2003 21:31, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2003 07:16, Dawit A. wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 August 2003 23:40, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Friday 15 August 2003 08:25, you wrote:
> > > > Give me the 10-minute tutorial and I'll work on some of these this
> > > > weekend....
> > >
> > > in my unfortunately oh-so-typical overkill style, here we go:
> > >
> > > 	http://urbanlizard.com/~aseigo/whatsthis_tutorial/
> > >
> > > please keep in mind this is just a first draft. i'd appreciate any and
> > > all feedback you may have.
> >
> > One big issue is that not all ui files contain the whatsthis text. 
> > Instead the whatsthis text is put in the source file that goes with that
> > specific ui file. For example, look at any of the ui files under
> > kdebase/kcontrol/kio. If someone then comes along and simply looks at the
> > ui files, they would think that there is no whatsthis entry and add their
> > own when in reality the source code already has such entry...
>
> yes, this needs to be cleaned up. i chalk it up to the developers involved
> not knowing that you can put WhatsThis help into the UI file because it is
> fairly well hidden at the bottom of the properties listbox.. hrm... maybe
> something for me to do tonight =)

I am one of those developers. :)  Originally I did not see it as you 
mentioned , but once I realized it was there I was too lazy to move it. On 
top of that I was not entirely sure how translation would work when the text 
is entered into the ui file. I know see that tr2i18n is used...

-- 
Regards,
Dawit A.
"Preach what you practise, practise what you preach"
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