Hi, 2008/2/4, Hamish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hamish wrote: > > > I notice these two changes: (are there more?) > > > http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/25463 > > > http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/29533 > > > > > > They are good candidates to use both module->label and > > > module->description. Using both of those is not an error. If the > > > GUI or lib/parser.c fails to deal with that, the bug is not in the > > > module. > > Martin: > > I am not sure about using tooltips for module description (i.e. > > label/description). The tooltip can be moved to the manual page > > ('description' section). See [1]. > > > > [1] > > http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-new-std-options-for-files-p12554008.html > > ok, if you follow the thread view from that post you can see Glynn's > replies of Sep 8, 2007 and Mar 23, 2007 which should help explain it. > The dual role of ->description is a bit confusing at first but makes > some sense once it is explained. > > A module's (or option's) sub-title need not be shown or thought of as a > tooltip. e.g. --help, --html-description, the TclTk GUI and > tools/module_synopsis.sh all handle it well. For module options, making > it into a tooltip is just a handy thing to do with it. I would hope > wxGUI would handle module->label in a similar way to the TclTk GUI > (unfortunately I still wait for Debian+wx2.8 issues to be resolved > before I can help). > > If the information is important enough to be used as a subtitle, by all > means it should be mentioned in the help page as well.
The wxGUI would handle module->label as well, it is trivial issue. I am not sure, should I revert these two changes (to add module->label)? Regards, Martin -- Martin Landa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa * _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
