i suppose(*) it goes to wikipedia, but why not instead put a link on each filter straight to the SHOTCUT’s filter doc (or PDF)?
the Shotcut documention for filters is almost fully done (I mean there is already a lot of materials to help people directly from the shotcut interface.)
I think it’s important, especially for the beginners, or people using Shotcut for the first time having a direct access to the doc/PDF straight from the filter they intend to use, what do you think?
“Oh.. what does this slider (or filter) do?” they click, and it’s done… they don’t wait
(*)I use “I suppose” because I’m using an appimage, thus I can’t click on it, it’s a know bug on certain Linux distro/DE - but nevermind, that’s not the subject.
If you do not see the button on the main toolbar that is because it is hidden in your beta version due to the window not being wide enough and View > Show Text Under Icons is on. Some icons get hidden when there is not enough space in order to keep showing the quick layout switcher. I have changed that since the beta version to hide something else instead in order to give What’s This? more priority. But also I mentioned “Help menu,” and it is there always.
I thought you already did put a link everywhere, which I did not see (because you did not)
About the “link” I would have thought of something like this instead (or on the other side), roughly select a filter and the question mark give answers for that selected filter
I found a bundled library (libatk-1.0.so.0) included with the AppImage/portable/Snap that caused the openUrl() function to break on some Linux environments. I reproduced it with Mint 22 Cinnamon. That lib is a dependency of something, but nearly all distributions install it by default (a component of GTK). I have removed this bundled library for the next version. There is a small risk that this can break launching Shotcut on another distribution, but I tested OK on Garuda/Arch and Ubuntu 24.04. Gonna test more tomorrow.
