[Digikam-devel] English text cleanup needed (GUI)

Tue Apr 24 09:11:31 BST 2007

Gerhard, i give my viewpoint here. Fell free to fix English stuff like you
want.

2007/4/24, brian remedios <brianremedios at gmail.com>:
>
> (I've registered this as a bug on the KDE database but it somehow got
> attached to the KChart application by mistake, hopefully it will get
> redirected.

I've gone through most of the Digikam application and noted some of the
> areas that need rewording in English. Some general trends: unnecessary
> pluralization, inconsistent use of label colons ':' and sentence case
> formatting, and the use of technical terms where simpler terms would work
> better.

A large review in source code need to be done for that...

Also, I would strongly suggest that wherever the word 'picture' is used you
> would think about using 'image' instead. This is more professional and helps
> to include graphics that don't necessarily come from cameras.

Yes. "Picture" is more professional. Fine for me...

- - -
>
> General top-level Menu label fixes:
>
> In general, avoid using the term 'sync' as it is too casual and
> non-technical people may not be familiar with the short form. Use
> 'synchronize' or 'update' (preferred) instead.

"Synchronize" is fine for me but can give long menu option.

Camera -> Media Browse    [ should be 'Browse Media' ]
> Tools -> Sync all Pictures Metadata  [ should be 'Synchronize Image
> Metadata' but 'Update Metadata Database' would be preferred ]
> Tools -> Batch Processes [ should be singular, 'Batch Process', since the
> user will only invoke one process a time.]
> View -> Slide Show -> Recursive  [ 'Recursive' is a somewhat technical
> term, use 'With all subfolders' instead]

fine

Image -> Correct Exif Orientation tag [ Would prefer either 'Set' or
> 'Adjust' rather than 'Correct' as it currently seems like it will fix itself
> ]

Adjust will be fine

Album -> Sync Pictures Metadata [ use 'Update metadata database' to denote
> what is actually being changed ( i.e. not the picture files!) ]

Well, no. The picture metadata are updated using database content, not the
inverse. And yes, the files are touched.

- - -

In the "Export to Flikr..." function I see a temporary dialog that says
"Connecting to frob"  I have no idea what a frob is or what it is trying to
do, needs a better label but not sure what.

In the dialog that comes up next: "Flickr::Kipi Plugin:Web Authorization"
The user doesn't need to know that it is a Kipi plugin. For clarity the
title should just be "Flikr: Web Authorization".

The current text reads: "Please Follow through the instructions in the
browser window and return back to press ok if you are authenticated or press
No"

It should be rewritten to:

"Please follow the instructions in the browser window and return to press
Yes if you were able to log in or No to cancel the export."

In the 'FlickrUploadr - digiKam' dialog that follows there is a subtitle
'Flickr Export' which makes it inconsistent. (sounds like we are exporting
-from- Flickr which is not the case) I would suggest changing the dialog
title to 'Flickr Upload' and removing larger heading below it and replacing
it with some helpful instructions.

Flickr tool is a kipi-plugins. Please use kde-imaging at kde.org to report this
problem. The maintaner is in this room.

- - -

In the 'Edit EXIF Metadata' dialog:

In English, the word 'information' doesn't have a specific plural form with
an appended 's'.
Anywhere you find the word 'informations' just remove the final 's'. This is
common across KDE documentation actually.

I'm the developper of this kipi-plugin. Fine for me to fix it.

'Date and Time Informations'  Too wordy, 'Date and Time' alone is just fine.

ok

'Pictures Adjustments Informations' Too wordy and too many plural forms.
Change it to 'Picture Adjustments'

ok

In the 'Caption' there are three checkboxes at the bottom denoting the
various metadata targets whose labels are not clear. I would suggest these
labels instead:

[x] Save to JFIF
[x] Save to digikam database
[x] Save to IPTC (warning: ASCII only)

Note: EXIF text fields (* above) are limited to ASCII characters only)

about "[x] Save to digikam database", the application name is detected
automaticly. "digikam" is not harcoded on the string.

(I think it would be better if digikam could detect non-ASCII characters
when the user types them instead. Then it could beep, inhibit the entry, and
popup an warning message.)

I have a patch to use UTF-8 with IPTC, but i'm satisfied by it. So at this
moment, forget the ASCII/IPTC stuff, it will be fixed later.

- - -

In the 'Properties' tab:

In the 'Image Properties' section there is a label "Bits Depth". It should
just be "Bit depth". Note that the bottom 'Photograph Properties' section
the "White balance" label uses sentence case formatting too which is the
preferred way so the "Depth" should be "depth" to match. Ditto for: "Color
Mode" -> "Color mode".

fine.

- - -

In the 'Adjust Time & Date' dialog:

It's a kipi-plugin too. I'm the maintener of this tool.

The labels on the two Sync checkboxes are confusing as the direction of
synchronization is not clear. I would suggest something like:

Update:  [x] Exif creation date [x] IPTC creation date

ok

- - -

In the KML Export dialog:

Kipi-plugin tool too.

Use sentence case formatting for the labels.

'Pictures Altitude' -> 'Picture altitude'   (no 's' on Pictures either)
'Destination Directory -> 'Destination directory'
'File Name' -> 'File name'
'Icons size' -> 'Icon size'
'GPX File' -> 'GPX file'
'Time zone:' This label has a colon appended to it. Either remove it or make
sure all the others have them as well.
'Track Width' -> 'Track width'
'Track Color' -> 'Track color'
'Track Altitude' -> 'Track altitude'

Warning. If i remember, there is a patch against svn to polish this tool
before to fix it. Look here :

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139793#c21

Gerhard, I have forget to apply this patch on svn (:=)))...

- - -

On a confirmation dialog I get:

'Sync all pictures metadata from all albums with digiKam database can take a
while. Do you want to continue?'

Too wordy and confusing, it should be written as:

'Updating the metadata database can take some time. Do you want to
continue?'

ok

- - -

Configure dialog

    Metadata: Save image time stamp as tags (should be 'timestamp', one
word)

ok

    Slide Show Settings:  Print camera aperture and focal length  (missing
the 'length' part)

I don't understand what is wrong here.

    Kipi Plugins: There no need to prefix every checkbox label with 'KIPI',
it is redundant.

this one is a widget from libkipi. Report this problem on
kde-imaging at kde.org. Angelo can take a look...

- - -

In the 'Email Images Options' dialog:

It's a kipi-plugin tool. Nota : the maintener is unjoinable since th dumy
kdemail.net mail server is down since a long time (:=(((

'Image List to Email' -> 'Images to EMail'

fine for me.

I would shorten the labels on the buttons on the left to just 'Add..' and
'Remove', the context is obvious and allows more room for the filenames.

ok

Mail Options:

'Change properties of images' -> 'Adjust image properties'

ok

(In English, you can generally eliminate the 'of' and tighten the text if
you reverse the word order)

'Images Properties' -> 'Image Properties'

'New images size:' -> 'Sent image size:'
'New images compression:' -> 'Sent image quality level:'  (this makes more
sense since a setting of '100' does not mean 100% compression!)
'Images file format:' -> 'Image file format'

'Maximum Email Size:' -> 'Maximum Email size limit:'

ok fine for me.

Gilles Caulier
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