Hi Klaus, On čt 4. června 2009, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > > - Should we localize the README? It is referenced in Help so for the > > > user that might be important. > > > > The README is no longer needed for hotkeys, the only remaining use is for > > the release notes. I am not sure if it is that important. > > Then the hotkeys menu should be changed. > > To the README, I think it would be nice to have it translated for the > User to see the about and so. >
I think that showing README file from the program itself is a bit non-standard and we should also consider other solutions. > > > - What about read only GQView-Metadata? Shouldn't there be a configure > > > option? > > > > Can you please describe how it would work? > > Well, just read old GQView-Data when they exists and convert them to new > metadata if they _don't_ exists. Maybe with option to delete the old > metadata after writing. > Geeqie can read the old format too. It is the only format if it is compiled without Exiv2, but it should work always as a fallback. The bigest problem is that it uses different directory and thus it can't see the metadata from GQView. Maybe we could add some conversion script? > > > - I should check some translations in the finished application. Some > > > are a bit ... well, strange. ;-) (Some still not committed.) For some > > > words it is difficult to find the correct translation. > > > > Feel free to change the English string if it is hard to translate. > > Oh, that was specified to the german translation of fix words only. > Actually there are two notions I do not know how to translate: > - pan view -- That whould be "Tafelansicht" if I translate them. That > sounds very stupid so I use '"panview"' in the translation. I left it untranslated for Czech too. > - sidecar -- The correct translation would be "Seitenwagen" which only > makes sense for motor cycles. There is absolutely no meaning for that > in conjunction to files. I use the approach above to use it in the > translation. > I translated it as "Side file" Here are some alternative names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidecar_file > > > - There should be the possibility to _use_ the checkbox "hidden" in > > > Application config. Maybe better saving that state in the geeqie > > > configuration. (What do that trigger anyway? It seems to be random > > > for me.) > > > > The checkbox indicates the "Hidden" flag from the desktop file. It can be > > changed by editing the file. Maybe we could replace the checkbox with > > something else. > > No, I do think that a checkbox make sense for this setting. But it > should be changeable. > I'd rather force the user to open the file and edit it there. Editing the files automatically according to the checkbox is IMHO dangerous. > > > - There should be a kind of wizzard for new editors. > > > > The template is not enough? > > I didn't see a template. Maybe cause I start geeqie from the source > directory only. Yes, you have to install it. > > > > - There should be a way to add a new application with just specifying > > > the path to a desktop file. > > > > All correctly installed desktop files are found automatically. Do we need > > anything else? > > I think a common use case to get a new desktop file is to search it by > google and download it to the desktop or the $HOME. It would be nice for > a button to load such a file (and copy it to a usual location for > geeqie). > Downloading the desktop file to the right directory is also easy... > Well, lets add another notes and errors I found recently: > > - I do not know if I mention this, but I get many errors like "Failed to > convert Exif.GPSInfo.GPSTimeStamp to Xmp.exif.GPSTimeStamp, unable to > parse '2009/1 4/1 20/1'" in the terminal when opening a file with GPS > informations. This is probably a bug in Exiv2. > > - I found a bad bug. When I do not have a autosave of meta data enabled > and edit some of some pictures and then rename one of the pictures > without saving the meta data in front, geeqie trows a exception and > break. (needless to mention that all changes to the meta data are > lost.) > I can't reproduce it. Do you have a backtrace? > - The description "Write the same description tags to all files in a > group" is not clear from a use view. Is there meant the picture group > (1-6 which is new in geeqie) or the group of images I have selected or > the grouped files for sidecars. That should be clarified. (At the > moment I myself are not sure what it mean (and I am to lazy to look at > the source. ;-)) > It is meant a file with sidecars > - What about line breaks (\n) in texts for dialog boxes? I think they > should be removed at the most locations. It makes no sense to use it > for controlling the line wide as in localized settings the line will > change in length extremely. It is again a problem with gtk. I still don't know how to make reliable multiline labels that wrap automatically. > > - There are some source with commented out localizes. (#if 0) That only > makes the work of translators more difficult especially if it is not > clear, what a text should mean. ("Add Alt" for example) We have the > stuff in svn so I think we can remove that sections complete (mostly). > This concrete piece of code should allow adding multiple alternative hotkeys for the same action. It should be rather fixed than removed. Maybe commenting out the particular line is enough. Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
