Description (`settings.description`) isn't reflected in the Backpack Settings UI

[emjayess]

Bug report

I'm just deploying and employing this package for the first time and in so doing, noticed that while it supplies a database column for describing a setting (settings.description) along with a name field for the setting, only the name is reflected in the UI.

Both name and description are varchars; so with a descriptive enough name/label, the description is a tad redundant. Since it exists tho, it may be desirable to supply it in the UI (as I expected it to be) and thus allow us to keep names brief, and descriptions more explanatory.

What I did:

Installed and deployed this Settings package, and seeded the first couple of settings to view them in Backpack's admin UI.

What I expected to happen:

I expected to see the Setting name, description, and form field while interacting with any given setting.

What happened:

I see only the setting name and form field, but not the description.

What I've already tried to fix it:

Nothing, except to use more descriptive names, to compensate for absence of description in the Settings UI.

Backpack, Laravel, PHP, DB version:

• Backpack/crud: 6.5
• Backpack/settings: 3.1
• Laravel: 10
• Php: 8.3
• MySQL: 8.x

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