[kde-doc-english]Re: Tool to check the menu items and the GUI labels

[Rinse de Vries]

Talking about accelerator checkers, is it possible to extend this to a 
automated tool for assigning accelerators?
At this moment accelerator clashes are very common in KDE, and it is a very 
painfull job to solve those clashes..

Kind regards, Rinse

Op maandag 11 februari 2002 18:31, schreef Frederik Fouvry:
> | Then we were speaking about different things. What I would like is a tool
> | that checks that what is marked up in the documentation really exists in
> | the menues and buttons. It's not a tool that would guess *all* of the
> | menus and buttons that exist in an application.
> |
> | The tool I would like to see could not help you determine whether you
> | described in the documentation all the interface elements or forgot some,
> | but at least you would know if your descriptions are misspelled our
> | outdated. And if it's not mistaken and if you're a translator, you would
> | know the translation used in the GUI too.
> |
> | A tool somehow similar to the one you describe already exists and is
> | implemented at Qt level: it's the accelerator checker (Ctrl-Alt-A). Of
> | course, it lists the available accelerators at a given point of time, not
> | independantly of the context.
>
> I've suggested a few times to extend the accelerator checker with
> a list output in text (or even better DocBook) format so that
> documentors can get a lot of the painful stuff out of the way
> easily, but no one has taken it up so far.  That seems to be what
> Jacob is proposing.  While it would be useful for big changes or
> new documentation, it wouldn't do very much for small changes,
> which is probably what happens most of the time.  That's what
> Eric would like to see (and it would indeed be nice to have it).
>
> I don't think the two proposals are incompatible.  Eric's needs
> more extraction and string massaging, so Jacob's/my proposal is a
> first step on the way to a GUI-doc consistency checking tool.
>
> Frederik
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