[Digikam-devel] [Bug 144590] English labels need cleanup in Digikam

Sun Jun 3 13:32:39 BST 2007

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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144590         
hugelmopf web de changed:

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         AssignedTo|inge lysator liu se         |digikam-devel kde org
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
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------- Additional Comments From hugelmopf web de  2007-06-03 14:32 -------
Thanks for this bugreport. I'll attach a patch where most of your findings are included (if they are not in trunk yet). One is for digikam, the other for kipi plugins.

Here are the commented suggestions, such that you can see, which ones are still open (look for FIXME).

|  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.

FIXME: I'll leave this for a developer to decide; not included in my patches.

|  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.
|
|  Camera -> Media Browse    [ should be 'Browse Media' ]
|  Tools -> Sync all Pictures Metadata  [ should be 'Synchronize Image
| Metadata' but 'Update Metadata Database' would be preferred ] 

Fixed in trunk.

| Tools -> 
| Batch Processes [ should be singular, 'Batch Process', since the user
| will only invoke one process a time.] 

In attached patch.

| View -> Slide Show -> Recursive  
| [ 'Recursive' is a somewhat technical term, use 'With all subfolders'
| instead] 

Fixed in trunk.

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

Fixed in trunk.

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

Fixed in trunk.

|  In the "Export to Flickr..." 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.

I didn't find the word frob anymore, so I assume fixed in trunk.

|  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 attached patch.

|  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.

FIXME: I'm not sure, what is more consistent. Left it out right now.

|  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.
|
|  'Date and Time Informations'  Too wordy, 'Date and Time' alone is just
| fine.
|
|  'Pictures Adjustments Informations' Too wordy and too many plural
| forms. Change it to 'Picture Adjustments'

In attached patch.

FIXME: Didn't find it.

|  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".

Fixed in trunk.

|  In the 'Adjust Time & Date' dialog:
|
|  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

In attached patch.

Fixed in trunk.

|  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?'

Fixed in trunk.

|  Configure dialog
|
|  Metadata: Save image time stamp as tags (should be 'timestamp', one
| word) Slide Show Settings:  Print camera aperture and focal length 
| (missing the 'length' part) Kipi Plugins: There no need to prefix every
| checkbox label with 'KIPI', it is redundant.

Fixed in trunk.

|  In the 'Email Images Options' dialog:
|
|  'Image List to Email' -> 'Images to EMail'
|  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.
|
|  Mail Options:
|
|  'Change properties of images' -> 'Adjust image properties'
|
|  (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:'

In attached patch.