Hi, with some help from Mitch we now have a nice little feature in CVS that will hopefully turn out to be useful especially for newbies. The CVS version is now able to display a short explanation for the selected menu-item in the statusbar of the image window. We will probably also allow to have this information displayed in a tooltip. This allows us to give the user some hints about what all the different menu entries, especially the plethora of filters, will do. That should make it a lot easier to explore the GIMP menus. For the core functions we use the tooltip field as registered with the action that is bound to the menu entry. The code for this lives entirely in the app/action directory. I have started to add tooltips for some of the menu entries but I would like to see this work being continued by a native speaker who is also an experienced GIMP user. For the plug-ins we use the blurb as registered with the plug-in procedure. Most plug-ins do already register such a blurb but all of them need to be reviewed. Currently most blurbs are oriented towards a developer who wants to use the procedure from a script. The blurbs use terms such as "drawable" which must not show up in the UI. Other plug-ins just duplicate the menu label or have useless blurbs such as "No description". So someone will have to go through all the plug-ins and make sure that each procedure, for which a menu entry is registered, has a reasonable blurb. After review, the blurb should be marked for translation. As an example I have done this for the blur, gauss and mblur plug-ins. We should try to find a consistent style for the descriptions. They should be short enough to fit into the statusbar of a medium-sized image window. The description should not duplicate the menu label but give additional information. If possible, it should describe the action using different words. Not all of the descriptions that I added yesterday match these criteria. We will probably need to go over the descriptions a few times, review and improve them incrementally. Any volunteers for this job? You will need to work with the CVS version but you do not necessarily have to compile the code (but it probably helps a lot to do that). I will try to help as much as possible but I would really welcome some help with this. Especially since I am not a native speaker and this task is a lot about finding the right words. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
