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ispyisail a0f0f61721 Correct the claim that the templates collection is untranslated
The page said the collection shows as "Makros" — a German string left
untranslated in the French and English interfaces. I could not support
that. It came from running a build straight out of its build directory,
where no translations load at all: forcing LANG=en_US left the menu bar
in French, which proves nothing either way, because French is the tr()
source language and is what you get when nothing is loaded.

qet_fr.ts and qet_en.ts both carry Makros -> Macros, so an installed
build shows "Macros". The page now says that, and the limitation bullet
about the label is gone.

What remains true is that the source string is German; that is filed as
issue #933 and is invisible to users, so it does not belong on this page.

Also links the two real limitations to their issues, #931 (drag-and-drop
is the only way to place a template) and #932 (no thumbnail).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CaKympWT3owLotCpEN2CFj
2026-09-19 12:39:36 +12:00
ispyisail 9e6eefa6b1 Add a Templates page, and correct how templates are placed
The wiki had no page on the Modèles tab, and the one sentence that
described it said a template is "dropped back in as a group at a click".
A click is exactly what does not work: clicking and double-clicking a
template are explicit no-ops in the code, and its context menu has no
insert entry. Drag-and-drop is the only route.

That sentence has a cost. An electrician reported the feature as broken
on the forum this month (viewtopic.php?pid=23296, item 5): "dans la liste
des modèles quand j'en sélectionne un que j'ai créé, il ne se dépose pas
sur le folio". He did what the wiki said and filed a bug.

The new page covers creating a template from a selection, placing one,
where the files live and how to relocate the folder, what a .qetmak
contains, how templates compare with elements and with copy/paste, the
limitations, and the four questions people actually arrive with.

Checked against the source and against a running build rather than
written from memory: the context-menu entry and save dialog were driven
by hand, the resulting .qetmak inspected, and the "double-click does
nothing" claim measured (two elements on the folio before, two after).
The placement gestures, the storage path and the file format come from
reading the code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CaKympWT3owLotCpEN2CFj
2026-09-19 12:28:13 +12:00