[Shotwell] [Yorba Announce] Shotwell 0.8.0 - A GNOME Photo Manager

[Adam Dingle]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Now that Shotwell supports video, it'd be probably good to see over which
> strings use 'photo' and adjust them correctly? For example, the import
> dialog of copy / keep in place only mentions photos and nothing about videos
> - it'd make it a bit confusing.


Vadim,

when we added video in Shotwell 0.8 we had to decide what to do about all of
Shotwell's strings which mention photos (there are hundreds).  We thought it
might be annoying to see "photos/videos" everywhere in the user interface
since Shotwell is primarily a photo manager and users will often work with
photos only.  We could be smarter and display either "photos", "videos" or
"photos/videos" in each message depending on the particular media objects
that are selected, but we didn't want to make our translators translate
several variants of every single string.  As a compromise, we picked the
most important and commonly seen messages in Shotwell and generalized those
to say either "photos", "videos" or "photos/videos" as appropriate.  In most
other places, Shotwell still says just "photos", but I think that should
cause no great confusion.

When Shotwell displays the particular dialog you mentioned, we don't
actually know yet whether there are videos in the set to be imported because
we haven't scanned the import folder yet.  So we can't easily switch between
"photos", "videos" and "photos/videos" on the fly.  We could just say
"photos/videos" in the dialog, but I think that might be annoying when
importing only photos which is, after all, Shotwell's primary job.  So I
think we'll likely keep this particular string as it is.  If there are other
strings in Shotwell which still say only "photos" but you think should be
generalized to mention videos as well, feel free to file a ticket and we'll
consider changing them.  Thanks!

adam