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 | outdated.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 > _______________________________________________ > kde-doc-english mailing list > kde-doc-english at mail.kde.org > http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-doc-english
