[Shotwell] strings inconsistencies and notes

[Jim Nelson]

Hi Ingo,

These are great notes and we'll consider them when developing our next
release.  For your reference, I've ticketed them here:
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1205

It is true that some of our word choices may seem odd or difficult to
translate.  "Unmark" and "Unhide" are words seen in modern applications.
(However, this might be an Americanism.)  And undoing a revert may seem like
an odd phrase, but that's literally what happens when the command is
selected.

In any case, we do want Shotwell to be an easy-to-use, approachable
application, and a lot of that is achieved with language choices.  Thanks
for this list, and if you think of more suggestions, please let us know!

-- Jim

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Ingo Lütkebohle <
iluetkeb at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> while doing the German translation, I noted a few things in the original
> strings. Most of these are minor, but they should also be easy to fix or
> get a word on.
>
>  * Sometimes you talk of "publishing", sometimes you talk of
> "uploading". This seems inconsistent. For what its worth, I like
> "publishing" better.
>  * Words such as "unmark" and "unhide" are difficult for me. I know its
> supposed to refer to the reverse, but wouldn't "remove mark" and "show
> again" be better? No clue about the UX, just the wording seems awkward
> (maybe more so in German, though).
>  * Is "Undoing revert" really possible? ;-)
>  * "Generating Events" seems slightly odd. I know what you mean, but its
> not really the Event that is generated (that one happened already in the
> real world), rather the Events are extracted from the foto metadata, right?
>  * "Basic" and "Extended" information are not clear to me. I am assuming
> there is some criteria for selecting what to display at which setting.
> It may be clearer to specify this critera or just to say "Basic" and "All".
>
> so much for now
>
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