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Bug 140543 - Action descriptions
Summary: Action descriptions
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151735
Alias: None
Product: usersguide
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: John Jullion-ceccarelli
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: 140540 123467
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Reported: 2008-07-17 14:56 UTC by Ondrej Langr
Modified: 2008-10-30 12:02 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Ondrej Langr 2008-07-17 14:56:52 UTC
Each action should have description associated with it, telling what the action is for.

Why? In the big IDE, there are several hundreds of actions many of which only make sense in the context of given module.
In menus, keymap panel and quicksearch, users come across many different actions purpose of which is often very unclear.
They are often disabled, but it is not obvious why.

These descriptions could be used: 
   1) In the new keymap panel (see #123467)
   2) To be displayed in the status line whenever the action is rolled-over (see #140540)
Comment 1 Ondrej Langr 2008-10-30 12:02:59 UTC

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 151735 ***