Lua Extensions: Handling of descriptors in VLC (title, shordesc, description)
Current behaviour (VLC-2.2):
VLC menu View: Shortdesc (activaton of Extension)
Tools > Plugins and extensions > Active Extensions tab:
'''Title
Shortdesc'''
[More information...]:
Title
Icon, Version, Author
Shortdesc
Website
File
*There is not Description anymore! *
Suggestion:
To return Title into menu View (instead of Shortdesc) and Description into More information:
Title (also in menu View for activation)
Shortdesc (a short sentence about the extension)
Icon, Version, Author
Description (a brief description of the Extension and its features; supports basic html tags)
Website
File
Activity
Added attachment:
assigned to @jbk
added Component::Interface: Qt label
VLSub is a special VLC Extension. Now it is a direct part of VLC almost like internal feature and the "Download subtitles" is really better and more descriptive title for the built-in native feature of VLC.
Other external VLC Extensions try to represent themselves by their unique names in the first place. I am sure that other scriptwriters would like to use their titles for activation in VLC menu, too. I will try to ask some of them to express their opinion here.
The original design was good, so I suggest to use the "title" for activation in VLC menu and "shortdesc" for short description - a short sentence that appears under the title in "Active Extensions" tab. The "description", the longer more detailed description, should appear in "More information..." dialog together with all available information including "shortdesc" just like it is in "Addons Manager" tab. Example:
Sampler (PG)
Generates samples (clips) of playlist items of desired duration.
The internal VLSub could have swapped title with shortdesc in the code:
title = "Download subtitles", shortdesc = "VLSub 0.9.13"I agree completely.
The Title should be in the View menu. The Title and Short Description should be in the Active Extensions tab. The Title and Long Description should be in the More Information.
The Addons Manager tab is showing info from the api.addons website, while the Active Extensions tab is showing info from the extension descriptor, forcing the extension developer to coordinate duplicate descriptions.
If you leave out the Short Description in the extension descriptor then VLC uses the Title in the View menu, which it should in the first place. That motivates the developer to leave off the short description so that it does not end up in the View menu.
Also #17594 The "Download subtitles - VLSub" related ticket. And #15175 (closed)
mentioned in issue #15175 (closed)
unassigned @jbk
