I'm Cc'ing to tuxpaint-dev; I hope you don't mind!!!
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:51:06AM +0200, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > > It works; only that there are not some untranslated ones. Okay, good. ;^) > (BTW, for colors, I find the colors shown at the bottom to be quite > complex, I mean, some simpler solid ones would be better for a program > aimed to children. When Shin-ichi Toyama added support for 800x600 mode, he decided to add a few more colors, since there was space. I liked the idea of more colors, so I incorporated them by default. At the moment, color values and names are hard-coded in "src/colors.h", but it might not be TOO intrusive to support a data file that gets read at startup, thereby letting the parents/teachers decide which colors to show. (I imagine in an art class, teaching just primary colors one day, then primary and secondary colors the next... then maybe shades... then tones...) > Note also that the colors *actually* used in the drawing are plain colors; > quite different in some cases from the color shonw in the color selector, > I find it a bit perturbing) I tried to make the color selectors as close as possible. They're generated, based on a PNG and RGB values of the color. The code could probably be better. ;^) > I wonder also if color names like "fuschia" or "lime" are the kind of color > names a child is likely to use... Hehe... It's been 6 months since "colors.h" was last touched, but I have "/* ... */" next to Fuchsia and Silver, for some reason. ;^) Maybe I was considering taking them out...? > > Also, I noticed some strings aren't translated yet > > (like the description of what the Stamp tool does, when you click it). > > In fact I'm not sure yet how to translate "stamp", "brush", "fading" > and "magic". I haven't translated yet the "good job" phrase either. > I'm wating for some more advice. Okay - Hopefully you understand the context for them, and such, right? If not, feel free to ask, and we can help you. I really need to get a POT file put in with Tux Paint (I'm lazy and stupid :^) ), and then place some useful description comments in there, for translators. Out of context, some of them are pretty ambiguous... > If you plan to do a release soon, tell me, so I'll update the file Not _soon_... Since putting TP in CVS, I'm able to release it far less often, but still let people test and patch. :^) Man, why didn't I do this SOONER?! > BTW, my daughter loves your program, and she regularly asks me I launch > "tuk" for her to draw something (she don't yet understand that she has to hold > mouse button down; maybe you could add a feature to make click button "sticky" > for very young children? eg, instead of clicking and holding down to > draw with the brush, just click once and draw, and click twice to "stop" the > brush writting) That's a great idea... I've added it to the TODO list. :^) -bill! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got kids? Get Tux Paint! http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ http://newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/ _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
