[Digikam-devel] To Translators : merging DigikamImagePlugins to digiKam...

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

If you have follow my recent commits to svn about next 0.9.2 release, i have
started to merge some duplicate editor tools into one and moved it into
digiKam. This is require about to solve some usability issues in editor.

The tools currently moved are :

- Blowup plugin merged with Image Editor Resize tool (digiKam core).
- Refocus, Unsharp Mask merged with Image Editor Sharpen tool (core image
plugin)

About translations, this is want mean than blowup, refocus, unsharp mask
plugins translations file are obsolete in svn.

Note than all i18n strings from these tools are unchanged. You can backport
all strings translated from old plugins .po files to digikam.po.

I have planed to move all DigikamImagePlugins implementation to digiKam. The
tools will be always available like a pliugins, but we will have only one
.po file for all tools : digikam.po.

The advantages are listed below :

- One file to translate.
- Duplicate i18n will be merged to one reference in .po.
- One package to build for each release : digikam.
- Image Editor plugins will be always available by default. no need to
install a separate package.

Also, when the plugins implementation will be moved to digiKam, i will
polish the code to prepare QT4 port (for later of course)...

The disavantage to merge DigikamImagePlugins to digiKam is for translators :
there are a lots of job to do about to manage/backport old translations to
digiKam core.

Well my question is simple : what do you think about to process merging for
0.9.2 release ?

Fabien, Oliver, and others digiKam translators, please let's me hear your
viewpoints... Thanks in advance.

Gilles
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