What the developer wrote
Authored by f321x
qt: remove outdated help string in SendTab
The amount edit box is not turning red anymore if the amount is higher
than the wallet balance, so this string can be removed.
Alternatively it could be made red again but seems like nobody missed
it.
What changed, and why it matters
This commit simply removes one outdated sentence from a help tooltip in Electrum's Qt wallet. The tooltip previously told users that an amount would turn red if they didn't have enough funds, but that visual feature no longer exists. There is no security issue here—it's a minor user-interface cleanup.
No security action needed. This is a routine UI string cleanup.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The change deletes a single localized help string in electrum/gui/qt/send_tab.py. The removed string claimed the amount input would display in red when the wallet lacked sufficient funds. The commit message states this behavior was already gone, so the string is stale. No logic, validation, or security behavior is modified.
Changed components
electrum/gui/qt/send_tab.pyInspect captured patch +0 / −1
diff --git a/electrum/gui/qt/send_tab.py b/electrum/gui/qt/send_tab.py
index dc1a05c..1eda3c6 100644
--- a/electrum/gui/qt/send_tab.py
+++ b/electrum/gui/qt/send_tab.py
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ class SendTab(QWidget, MessageBoxMixin, Logger):
msg = (_('The amount to be received by the recipient.') + ' '
+ _('Fees are paid by the sender.') + '\n\n'
- + _('The amount will be displayed in red if you do not have enough funds in your wallet.') + ' '
+ _('Note that if you have frozen some of your addresses, the available funds will be lower than your total balance.') + '\n\n'
+ _('Keyboard shortcut: type "!" to send all your coins.'))
amount_label = HelpLabel(_('Amount'), msg)
Why this scored 15/100
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