ToolTips and Automatic Formatting

Sun Aug 18 09:44:32 UTC 2013

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:36 AM, vedant agarwala <vedant.kota at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net> wrote:
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>> п'ятниця, 16-сер-2013 10:44:45 Mark Kretschmann написано:
>> > Heya,
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>> > as we noticed recently, many of Amarok's ToolTips look very ugly and
>> > have readability issues because they are not formatted. Therefore a
>> > longer ToolTip is being rendered as one giant long line. The Qt API
>> > offers automatic formatting with line-breaks for ToolTips, but there
>> > is an ugly API quirk: The formatting can only be switched on by adding
>> > a <html> tag to the string. In theory a wrapper could be created for
>> > QWidget::setToolTip() and friends, but this wouldn't play nice with Qt
>> > Designer.
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>> > I think for consistency's sake it would be ideal to simply switch on
>> > automatic formatting for *all* of our ToolTips, and not bother with
>> > manual line-breaks. This is also because with translations it's
>> > impossible to know the final length and look of the strings. The
>> > downside is, we would have to change nearly all ToolTip strings in
>> > Amarok (this could be done with some clever sed use).
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>> > What do you think is the best way to go forward?
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>> Hi,
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>> There are no objections from me if it works beter way than before
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>> to the method chosen). However, it would be good to have some time to
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>> the new formatting in the translations and not push the changes right
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>> the release (like it was with docs).
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> IMO this should not happen. We are in string freeze and this work should
> take a few days.

Eh, we are not in string freeze. Amarok 2.8.0 was tagged and released on Friday.

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Mark Kretschmann
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