hotkeys and tooltips

[staviq]

This is a feature request.

UI Button tooltips need to:
- Contain it's hotkey in the tooltip
- Have the same description in the tooltip, in the hotkey list, and the menu.

Current: https://i.imgur.com/LvKs3AF.png
Proposed: https://i.imgur.com/3DnTbIW.png

Proposed change does not influence the workflow of experienced users, it would however, be immensely helpful to all the newcomers, like me.

Currently, the tooltips in the ui don't even have the same names / descriptions as in the hotkey list or the menu. This is really confusing for someone trying to learn Kicad.

example:
    tooltip "Route tracks", hotkey description: "Add new track"
  or
    tooltip "Add filled zones", menu item name "Place/Zone"

I believe this is very important feature missing from the project, even though it seems like something trivial.

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

This is a really good idea. Thanks!

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

Version 5.1 is in feature freeze. Moving to 6.0.0 milestone.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

This should be easy to automate with the new ACTION framework (all info necessary is in the ACTION).

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Hi Seth,

I missed your name on this. Are you working on it, or do you mind if I take it?

Cheers,
Jeff.

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

All yours!

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision b029e4e44a066e8e225504042dcebe42d0d114dc
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=b029e4e44a066e8e225504042dcebe42d0d114dc