Add a new field: note/description for each view default/block/page/attachment etc.

I agree, this could be useful.

This would go well alongside a 'human readable' name for a View, which is something that Views have never had and have always needed.

Patches will be considered.

So as i think its basically splitted into two parts:
- human readable name for a view
- note/description for every display handler

Here it comes.

We should allow users define this values when creates a new view.

It is similar to this patch but with changes in the function views_ui_add_form(&$form_state) {}

Yes i missed this. Thanks for giving me the function name :)

The patch doesn't apply anymore. admin.inc have changed a lot since last commit.

I would like to see this Readable name in a more visible place, something like:

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Maybe we can add this legend in top of the view display, just below of Views name. Or maybe popup with a ? icon.

I don't know, but thats is the idea...

For reference: #330160: It should be more obvious on how to edit a description

After converting line endings, this patch now applies again.

(This patch is exactly the same, just has line endings converted).

We aren't allowed to modify views_schema_1() -- see my comments on #635336: Remove unused fields from the view

New version, resolved conflicts in display.inc

This needs to be updated now that the .install file fixes have been committed. WE do need to make sure that both fresh install and updates work, so just putting it in an update function is not enough.

Update

Hm. This has display description as defaultable? Why would that be? The display name isn't, certainly the description should be unique to the display.

Changed the defaultable and changed the update-id to 6009

OH nice patch name. Here is a rerole

Here is a updated version.

I'm wondering whether the tag should still be used as the admin-title, see screeshot. The description/human-readable name is not there.

Here is the screenshot

Yes, I think these should be broken out into separate line items on the main form.

Here is the new patch.

Doesn't quite apply to D7.

Here is a first patch.

Ported. It's working fine, when you clear the menu cache :)

Commited to the 7.x-3.x branch.