[Gimp-developer] Script-Fu procedure blurb review

[Alan Horkan]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Kevin Cozens wrote:

> > That's nice, but the task is to come up with a short string that must
> > fit into a single line and is oriented towards the user, not towards a
> > script programmer. The string will be visible in the status bar when
> > browsing the menus. Something like the following would be appropriate
> > for your example:
> >
> >   "Generate a repeating pattern of Truchet tiles"
>
> Is there a particular need for these blurbs to be short one liners other than
> making things easier for the translaters? I don't think they should be

Plugins have both a short summary description ("blurb")  be and a longer
more descriptive help.  It might be worth making things consistent and
doing the same for scripts.

-- 
Alan