I’d suggest not looking into the new GUI, especially since you’re not using it.
Additionally, help text is wrong (as mentioned), and option name isn’t shown.
This leaves one entirely reliant on backwards help text to try to understand…
Regarding improved wording, I looked at what some other “dont” options say:
and you can see that the unchanged help still has the wrong direction stated:
The wrong long statements are exactly identical. Let me repost what I showed above:
The difference is old GUI doesn’t show the reversed short help. It shows option name, providing summary of the option. New GUI shows wrong short help, trying to do same.
You are reading reversed help. Don’t do that, or be aware that help here is backwards.
When option got reversed, help should have reversed. It didn’t. It’s backwards.
EDIT 1:
An option has a name and short and long help. The below were added May 27 for original release of this feature in 2.1.0.119, and were not changed on June 13 with option reverse, which was a coding bug IMO. All you can do for 2.1.0.120 is not rely on the reversed help.
EDIT 2:
So if the short help text were fixed, ngax would show dont-replace-faulty-index-files option name, and ngclient would show (for example) short help of “Don’t replace defective index files”, and would solve the confusion seemingly being caused by bad 2.1.0.120 help.
A question I have for the dev is whether there is an intentional move to reduce visibility of option names. I’ve been asking about that since 2.1.0.118, noting they’re no longer shown:
The missing part here is the option name
Option names in English may be similar to the short help text. If Duplicati someday is well translated, short help text will probably be easier for non-English language settings – until questions arise about what options are being used – at that point option names are better.
The other thing that option names allowed was sorting. This is also very absent in ngclient, where current and potential options are rather unpredictably ordered. Is this seen as good?