[bt-devel] Tooltip text location in source files

Eeli Kaikkonen eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi
Sun May 18 03:19:14 MST 2008


I find the current standard of having the tootip texts in CResMgr class
cumbersome, non-intuitive and illogical. Almost all other UI strings are
in the widget files. It's difficult to find the corresponding strings
from one non-related file. It creates overhead in code size and in
coding phase.

Additionally the Qt tranlation system does not work optimally. The human
translator sees the classes and all strings in it.  It's easy to see the
context and related strings. CResMgr breaks that.  There are no
translator hint texts in the tooltips and adding those would be
cumbersome and time consuming.

I strongly suggest that we move the tooltips where they naturally
belong, next to the user interface elements and related strings.

  Yours,
	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)



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