Shortcut localised_description unused?

[Mernom]

I've been working on a mod which adds a shortcut accessed selector item, and I've noticed that shortcuts don't display localised descriptions when moussed over, even if it's defined.

Now, I'm still on an older version (.19), but looking at the changelog, I don't think it was addressed at all. Is that still the case?

[Pi-C]

Just stumbled across the same problem: I've defined a Prototype/Shortcut with both localised_name and localised_description:

Both localised_name and localised_description exist and are different.

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However, the only thing I see used in the game is localised_name:

Only localised_name is used.

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Quite a dilemma: I feel I need a description because selecting an area will do something other (open a GUI with the selected entities, or add selected entities to an existing GUI for alt-select, or remove selected entities from an existing GUI for reverse-select) than clicking on a distinct position ("claim", "lock/unlock", or "summon" a single entity). But the description is too long to be useful as a title -- "GCKI: Keys" is short enough for that to see what kind of shortcut it is, and what mod introduced it.

Suggestion: In the list of available shortcuts (see the left red rectangle in the screenshot above), display localised_name, and use localised_description as tooltip for the shortcut hovered over with the mouse. In the quick-select shortcut list (the red rectangle on the right), combine name and description, so the tooltip is

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{"", {"shortcut-name.name-of-your-shortcut"}, ":\n", {"shortcut-description.your-description"}}