On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:05:32 +0000 Howard Page-Clark <h...@talktalk.net> wrote:
> The work being done to improve the Help functionality in Lazarus is much > appreciated. One part of the newer interface that currently seems > inadequate to me is the naming of the "Macrofy" button > (Tools¦Options¦Help¦External). > > I think it is OK to name the underlying string function Macrofy, as a > convenient neologism to describe the functionality. However, it does not > work as a button label, being far too cryptic, and I think the hint > description "Replace common directories with macros" (or something like > it) should be part of caption of the control that initiates the macrofying. > > Such a long phrase is probably too verbose for a button caption, but the > present terse "Macrofy" is just too odd (at least in English, perhaps it > works better in other languages), and it is too short, lacking the > immediately obvious meaning that the button will effect a replacement of > directory path names with macro substitutions. > > I welcome the functionality, but think it needs to be presented to the > user less cryptically. I changed it to "use macros". Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
