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Bug 17242

Summary:	Description is used as name for action in menu and toolbars
Product:	projects	Reporter:	Milan Kubec <mkubec>
Component:	Ant	Assignee:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P4
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description Milan Kubec 2001-11-02 10:44:53 UTC

Description of target is used as name of action in Menu and Toolbars. If I
assume that description can be longer than 2 or 3 words it can be quite anoying
to have such long item in menu or toolbar. It could use just name of target.

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2001-11-02 11:48:22 UTC

Why would you make a description longer than you wanted? If you use
the shortcut wizard, you are creating an Ant script solely for the
purpose of putting it in a menu or toolbar. So its description should
be chosen to make sense there.

Comment 2 Milan Kubec 2001-11-02 12:00:48 UTC

I mean that if you write description for target, you use probablt
sentence which describes what it does e.g. description for
release-helper target is: 
"Help do some things useful when bundling a new Ant release.". So then
if I decide to put this target to build menu or to toolbar by action
Shortcut to Target I have this sentence in menu or in toolbar, which
is not very nice.

Comment 3 Jesse Glick 2001-11-02 13:13:50 UTC

Well you have the opportunity to type whatever you want for the
shortcut, it just picks up a default from the real target's
description. Maybe this could be reopened as a request to put more
wording into the wizard panel explaining how the display name will be
used.

Comment 4 Quality Engineering 2003-06-30 14:44:24 UTC

Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.

Comment 5 Quality Engineering 2003-06-30 14:46:11 UTC

Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.