| Summary: | Text Filter needs a better name or caption that reveals its true power | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kate | Reporter: | Nate Graham <nate> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | usability |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://commits.kde.org/kate/25879726e1ff4c049c5fc5b97ae676f6e983e175 | Version Fixed In: | 18.12.0 |
Git commit 25879726e1ff4c049c5fc5b97ae676f6e983e175 by Nathaniel Graham.
Committed on 30/07/2018 at 22:27.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.
Improve the discoverability of the Filter Text plugin and its menu item
Summary:
The "Filter Text" plugin is one of Kate's most useful plugins for serious professional use, but it's rather hidden behind a nondescript name, caption, and menu item.
This patch improves the caption to mention "terminal commands" to give a hint about its true power, and also uses a compact variant of that same terminology for the menu item. These changes should improve discoverability.
FIXED-IN: 18.12.0
Test Plan:
More descriptive caption in the plugins list:
{F6142006}
More descriptive menu item text:
{F6142008}
Reviewers: #kate, dhaumann, cullmann
Reviewed By: #kate, dhaumann, cullmann
Subscribers: kde-doc-english, lueck, kwrite-devel
Tags: #kate, #documentation
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D14390
M +1 -1 addons/textfilter/plugin_katetextfilter.cpp
M +1 -1 addons/textfilter/textfilterplugin.desktop
M +4 -4 doc/kate/plugins.docbook
https://commits.kde.org/kate/25879726e1ff4c049c5fc5b97ae676f6e983e175
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It's not obvious from its name ("Text Filter") or caption ("Easy text filtering") that this plugin allows you to pipe text through arbitrary shell commands--a feature that enormously magnifies a text editor's power. We should consider improving the name of the plugin (and its menu entry) or its caption to mention something about terminal or shell commands. For example the caption could be "Process elected text using terminal commands".