[bt-devel] Tooltip text location in source files

[Martin Gruner]

Hi Eeli,

I agree, do it!

Cresmgr will probably only be useful as a central place to store icons and  
maybe shortcuts. That likely means it can be a header-only list of constant 
strings.

mg

Am Sonntag, 18. Mai 2008 schrieb Eeli Kaikkonen:
> 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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