Re: Adding context information for tooltips

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 14:38 -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:

> I ḋ like to propose, since thses NC_ calls are being introduced now (at least 
> in GIMP - I don't know about other gnome-projects) to have teh context string 
> to distinguish between the Label and the Tooltip strings.
> 
> In the example above, instead of having "channels-action" describing 
> both  "_Add to Selection" and "Add this channel to the current selection",
> I'd propose describing the lable "_Add to selection" 
> with "channels-action-label" and the tooltip with "channels-action-tooltip".
> 
> In other words source code for that  would change from:
>   { "channels-selection-add", GIMP_STOCK_SELECTION_ADD,
>     NC_("channels-action", "_Add to Selection"), NULL,
>     NC_("channels-action", "Add this channel to the current selection"),
>     GIMP_CHANNEL_OP_ADD, FALSE,
>     GIMP_HELP_CHANNEL_SELECTION_ADD },
> to
> 
>   { "channels-selection-add", GIMP_STOCK_SELECTION_ADD,
>     NC_("channels-action-label", "_Add to Selection"), NULL,
>     NC_("channels-action-tooltip", "Add this channel to the current 
> selection"),
>     GIMP_CHANNEL_OP_ADD, FALSE,
>     GIMP_HELP_CHANNEL_SELECTION_ADD },

That would not be sufficient. You would also have to pass both contexts
to the gimp_action_group_add*() functions and change the code there to
take the two different contexts into account. I am not sure if that is
worth the effort.


Sven