[Digikam-devel] (Maybe) incorrect GUI message ("Supplication")

Luigi Toscano luigi.toscano at tiscali.it
Sun Mar 15 21:36:21 GMT 2015


Gilles Caulier ha scritto:
> 2015-03-15 19:13 GMT+01:00 Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>:
>> Andrew Goodbody ha scritto:
>>> Well 'Supplication' is definitely very wrong. However I do not like
>>> 'Sublocation' either; although I could not say that it is wrong, it is quite a
>>> long way from the best word to use. Unfortunately I suspect that the best word
>>> to use may vary according to local usage. It is not clear to me from that code
>>> if it refers to something smaller than a city or larger than a city.
>>
>> Sorry for the late answer. It seems that the naming is related to the IPTC
>> specifications, where "sublocation" is described as:
>> "Name of a sublocation the content is focussing on -- either the location
>> shown in visual media or referenced by text or audio media. This location name
>> could either be the name of a sublocatioto a city or the name of a well known
>> location or (natural) monument outside a city. In the sense of a sublocation
>> to a city this element is at the fourth level of a top-down geographical
>> hierarchy"
>>
>> So smaller that a city, a specific place.
>>
>> See: http://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/specification/IPTC-PhotoMetadata ,
>> page 18.
>>
>> (Luckily it has been replaced by two other keys, "Location Created" and
>> "Location Shown").
>>
>>
>>>
>>> So 'Sublocation' may be an attempt at compromise but to me it is a compromise
>>> that suits no one. I would tentatively suggest 'District' but I may be trying
>>> to give a name to something that does not exist in my understanding.
>>
>> So no District for sure. Given that this is the official name of a tag, I
>> would leave Sublocation. If you agree, I can push the change myself: which
>> branches?
> 
> git master and frameworks branches must be patched...

Thanks.
Should I commit the change separately in the two branches, or do you regularly
merge master in frameworks as it happens in other projects (so that I need to
fix it in master only)?

Ciao
-- 
Luigi




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