I'm speaking from the perspective of someone involved in code refactoring/development, but my idea has implications for the user.

As we know, when an effect is developed in the "standard" way, a configuration window (SimpleEffectDialog) is created automatically, along with descriptive labels for the controls.

What about being able to add a description to the configuration parameters, too? And how would it work? Some considerations:

• Using, say, a Description attribute coukd be awkward if the description is long
• I think documentation comments can be accessed through reflection, but this coukd be awkward, too, not to mention that it might not play well with the translation mechanisms
• Could we use mnemonics like "Voronoi-Parameter-NumberCells"? In that case, how could we tell the translators what the text is about? Perhaps we would use named resources which can be translated (and the translation mechanism automated, of course)?
• What would it look like at the UI level? I was thinking of a circled question mark to the right of the title label, which would show a tooltip with the explanation when hovered over