That's a good suggestion: we could just say "media" instead of "photos/videos" in some messages. This might be especially convenient if we start supporting audio - see http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2920 - since "photos/videos/audio" would be ridiculous. We'll consider this.
adam On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Vadim Peretokin <[email protected]>wrote: > Hmm, I see. I would've called it media > > On 2010-12-24 8:09 AM, "Adam Dingle" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Vadim Peretokin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Now that Shotwell... > Vadim, > > when we added video in Shotwell 0.8 we had to decide what to do about all > of Shotwell's strings which mention photos (there are hundreds). We thought > it might be annoying to see "photos/videos" everywhere in the user interface > since Shotwell is primarily a photo manager and users will often work with > photos only. We could be smarter and display either "photos", "videos" or > "photos/videos" in each message depending on the particular media objects > that are selected, but we didn't want to make our translators translate > several variants of every single string. As a compromise, we picked the > most important and commonly seen messages in Shotwell and generalized those > to say either "photos", "videos" or "photos/videos" as appropriate. In most > other places, Shotwell still says just "photos", but I think that should > cause no great confusion. > > When Shotwell displays the particular dialog you mentioned, we don't > actually know yet whether there are videos in the set to be imported because > we haven't scanned the import folder yet. So we can't easily switch between > "photos", "videos" and "photos/videos" on the fly. We could just say > "photos/videos" in the dialog, but I think that might be annoying when > importing only photos which is, after all, Shotwell's primary job. So I > think we'll likely keep this particular string as it is. If there are other > strings in Shotwell which still say only "photos" but you think should be > generalized to mention videos as well, feel free to file a ticket and we'll > consider changing them. Thanks! > > adam > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
