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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Kwave, translated screenshots
From:       Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic () gmx ! net>
Date:       2015-02-19 8:35:44
Message-ID: 201502190935.45094.caslav.ilic () gmx ! net
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>> [: Thomas Eschenbacher :]
>> One reason why I would like to do the screenshots on my own or script
>> based is that I would like to make sure that screenshots look the same
>> across all languages. [...]
>>
>> Is there some "official" way to communicate this (except this mailing
>> list)?
>
> [: Yuri Chornoivan :]
> [...]
> Most of the teams do not even bother to take screenshots (some even do not
> bother to generate docbooks for already translated docs ;) ) so you can do
> what ever you want.
>
> There is no other official way to communicate. :)

True, but this (automatic multi-lingual screenshots) is a fantastic
development, and we should make every effort to explicitly support it on the
side of translation infrastructure as well. So please come out with ideas.

Here is one off the top of my head. The source doc/ directory can contain a
file named automatic-screenshots with the list of file names. When
populate-documentation.sh sees this file, instead of downloading the listed
files, it will put instead of each an internal fixed small image. This image
can be something like a black square inscribed with "screenshot will be
automatically generated". Or, this internal fixed image could be instead
overlayed on the actual screenshot, so that translators can both see the
screenshot and cannot miss that it will be automatically generated. Or, to
keep things very simple and rely just a bit on translators' prudence, do
nothing automatically in populate-documentation.sh but communicate the
concept of automatic-screenshots file, so that translators know what it is
when they see it in the directory.

-- 
Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)

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