Merge tooltip strings for skins and controller wizard and maintain only one source

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Reported by: esbrandt
Date: 2014-12-18T06:37:41Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Medium
Launchpad Issue: lp1403748
Tags: polish, usability

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Currently, we maintain 2 different string sources for tooltips:

• src/skin/tooltips.cpp
• src/controllers/controlpickermenu.cpp

Currently, we have the following quirks

• Same control different content in the tooltip
• Same control different spellings in the tooltip
• Control missing tooltip in one or another source

This is unnecessary work for code and translation contributors as well.
We have manifests for effects including a description, what about something similar in a centralized fashion for control descriptions?

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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2017-11-11T15:49:55Z

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Should we deal with this for 2.1 or postpone it?

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2017-11-12T09:11:16Z

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It is OK for me to postpone it.

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Commented by: esbrandt
Date: 2017-11-12T14:20:59Z

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Do do not give it another 3 years.

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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2017-11-12T15:23:59Z

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jus, unless you are committing to take care of this for 2.2, I don't think it is helpful to assign bugs to a milestone. This is how milestones accumulate a lot of noise, which makes it hard to tell what actually needs to get done to make a release happen.

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2018-07-15T20:45:21Z

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Related:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1781827