(Auto-)Break long string literals in *.slint into multiple lines

[ubruhin]

Long string literals in *.slint files are currently very unreadable:

Text {
  wrap: word-wrap;
  text: @tr("Please note that this is not the preferred way to install libraries as they won't be kept up to date. For our official libraries, please consider installing them in the libraries panel instead, which allows to keep libraries up to date.");
}

For plain string literals it would be possible to concatenate multiple strings like "foo" + "bar" with line breaks in between. But it's not very useful yet because:

• It does not seem to work inside @tr()
• It will be reverted to a single line by fmt

Do I miss some way of breaking up a long string literal into several lines?

And may I suggest to make fmt breaking long strings into several lines automatically (respecting a certain line length limit)?

[hunger]

Yes, we need to make the code formatter smarter than it is right now :-(

[ogoffart]

This is not only about the formater, because as @ubruhin, there is no way to split in multiple line in a @tr() statement

[ubruhin]

Alright, thanks for clarifying.