On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:36 AM, vedant agarwala <vedant.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurc...@ukr.net> wrote: >> >> п'ятниця, 16-сер-2013 10:44:45 Mark Kretschmann написано: >> > Heya, >> > >> > 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. >> > >> > 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). >> > >> > What do you think is the best way to go forward? >> >> Hi, >> >> There are no objections from me if it works beter way than before >> (regardless >> to the method chosen). However, it would be good to have some time to >> adopt >> the new formatting in the translations and not push the changes right >> before >> the release (like it was with docs). > > > 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. -- Mark Kretschmann Amarok Developer Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe http://amarok.kde.org - http://fsfe.org _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
