[GRASS-dev] options label/description

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2009/7/11 Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>:

[...]

> The current naming is accurate.
>
> In a GUI, the text used as the "title" of a widget is called a
> "label". So in the option/flag structures, the text which is intended
> to be used as the label goes in the field named "label".
>
> These fields aren't restricted to the GUI (both are used in the
> command-line --help output and HTML documentation), so "tooltip" isn't
> appropriate.

sorry I couldn't find the previous discussion about this topic. Well,
would make sense to you to make 'label' mandatory. I still see as
confusing: if label not given, description becomes label. My
suggestion is to make 'label' mandatory. If label is too long then is
split into label/description.

Martin

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