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[Tech debt] Decouple shortcut and tooltip descriptions (and update tooltips)
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Description
Related to: #13695, #24439
Background
The description string in UIAction is currently used as both descriptions of our shortcuts, and as our tooltip descriptions. Sometimes this is ok but, particularly after #28999, it's clear we need more granularity here.
For example - the "Loop playback" action:
To-do
These strings need to be decoupled. Once that's done, update the tooltips in the Publish toolbar to the following:
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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