[Nepomuk] Translation of meta-data labels

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Saturday 20 February 2010 14:23:45 Peter Penz wrote:
> I'm just trying to fix the issue in Dolphin, that no meta data is shown for
> e. g. images that are not indexed (in the case of images it is a must that
> at least the width and height are shown - of course similar issues exist
> for other files too).
> 
> For this I'm using KFileMetaInfo as fallback. Problem: The labels of the
> meta- data provided by KFileMetaInfo are named like e. g.
> 
> http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/03/22/nfo#width
> 
> for the width of an image. Of course a translated label for "Width" would
> be preferable :-)
> 
> Nepomuk is a little bit nicer when returning the label name, but still
> there are no translations given and workarounds have been added in Dolphin
> to make the labels readable.
> 
> Now I've seen that e. g. in
> apps/plasma/applets/folderview/tooltipwidget.cpp manual translations are
> done already too and I want to prevent another workaround in Dolphin doing
> the same.
> 
> I know that Sebastian is aware about this issue. But I fear that there are
> too many other high priority issues, so that it is possible that no proper
> solution will implemented for KDE SC 4.5.
> 
> My question is: Are there already some ideas where a proper fix or a
> "translation factory" for the labels should be done? My time is limited, so
> I cannot promise to do the whole stuff, but at least I'd be open to help.

It isn't entirely clear what you mean by translation.

http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/03/22/nfo#width has a 
reasonably nice-looking rdfs:label "width"...

-- 
Evgeny