foo and is not displaying.edit: here is the iconset if you want to check : temp (32px & 22px).dis (14.5 KB)
That's by design and documented here: Icon Display Names [Directory Opus Manual]
Hmmm, thanks.
You would think setting a description explicity would override the automatic description.
Can we make this so ?
I will mark this as a feature request (unless you disagree, in which case un-mark it)
It doesn't make sense to replace an internal icon with something that has a different display name. The display name is supposed to be a translation (into the user's language) of the icon name, and that doesn't change when the icon itself changes.
If you want icons with custom display names, give them different names.
give them different internal names, you mean (which are taken from the filenames in the Iconset Maker apps) and are useful to duplicate when making iconsets - if you want the icons to automatically change (when placed higher in the list than an iconset that has the same internal names)
Okay, will have to hardcode hundreds of internal description names then (for the purposes of adding description editing capabilities to Iconset Maker)
EDIT: also as a side-note, if the internal are the same as the directory opus internal names, for any custom icons that you are making, the category names will not use the categories of the directory opus icons (just the descriptions)
Indeed. You aren't allowed to move the default icons into other categories, or change their names. The default icons are already defined and you aren't supposed to change their definitions; that would be confusing.
If you want icons with custom categories and descriptions -- i.e. which do not conform to the built-in icons -- then they must use custom names as well. This makes sense as they are different icons with different meanings, not just different images representing the same thing.
(Put another way: If they do represent the same thing as an internal icon, you don't need to change their category, names or descriptions. If they don't represent the same thing, they shouldn't have the same name.)
Why? There is no reason to edit the internal icon names and descriptions unless you're a translator and the translation has an error or something.
When making iconsets, if the filenames of the images used to make the iconset are the same as the directory opus built-in internal names, then the icons in the toolbars can more easily be changed, as placing the new iconset above the old iconset (in the iconsets list) will make those icons override the icons in the sets below it.
Setting descriptions for icons using built-in names has no effect, so would be useful if those descriptions were already filled in the Iconset Maker descriptions editing dialog.
We'll add a way to do that in the next beta.
