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

[Adam Dingle]

That's a good suggestion: we could just say "media" instead of
"photos/videos" in some messages.  This might be especially convenient if we
start supporting audio - see http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2920 - since
"photos/videos/audio" would be ridiculous.  We'll consider this.

adam

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hmm, I see. I would've called it media
>
> On 2010-12-24 8:09 AM, "Adam Dingle" <adam at yorba.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Now that Shotwell...
> 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
>
>