Improve help texts in "add content type"

To quote Gábor from http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2007-December/027977.html: "RC1 is string freeze, so whatever needs modifications in the strings is generally postponed to Drupal 7."

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It seems the help text under the 'Description' field is gone now in D7. I don't know if the text is meant to make it back in, I believe it would be useful to explain where this text is going to be displayed.

Anyway, here's a stab at it (the 'Description' field help text on /admin/content/types/add):

"A brief description of this content type. Like the content type's name, this text will be displayed as part of the list on the add new content page."

Attached patch adds the help text mentioned above.

How about something a bit more active:

"A brief description of this content type. Along with the content type's name, this text is displayed on the add new content page."

I would make it even more active: "Describe this content type. It will be displayed on the Add new content page."

The patch looks good, simple and clean. It passed simpletests. The change seems obvious; "Why didn't we do this already!?".

One possible improvement is to make the <em>Add new content</em> text into a link to node/add/$node_type. Though this also inroduces the issue of taking the user away from the form and losing their unsaved changes. That is a larger problem in Drupal that needs addressing separately.

Debating whether or not to make it a link or not shouldn't delay the simple text addition in this patch, so RTBC.

Hm. That's a good point, Bevan, but I think this will do for now.

Committed to HEAD. Thanks!