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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Kwave, translated screenshots
From:       Thomas Eschenbacher <Thomas.Eschenbacher () gmx ! de>
Date:       2015-03-04 19:57:14
Message-ID: 54F7639A.90504 () gmx ! de
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Chusslove Illich wrote:

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>> Just an idea: would "mangling the file name" also do the job
>> (instead of mangling the content)? For example adding a prefix
>> like "no-l18n-" to the filename?
> 
> Prefix no-i18n- has somewhat wrong semantics, "do not translate"
> rather than "will be automatically generated".

Yes, that's right... and the term "automatically generated also gives
a slightly wrong impression, as the images are not really
"automatically" generated, in the sense of a script (like skripty)
that is executed unattended, e.g. in the context of a cron job. So I
would prefer the term "generated".

> I'm not sure which solution is best here. Options mentioned so far
> were: do nothing (rely on presence of 'auto-generated' list file),
> prefix each screenshot file name, replace each screenshot with
> dummy image, overlay screenshot with note-image. I'd prefer the
> last solution, but it has the downside that ImageMagick would have
> to be installed on translator's machine.

As a first step, until we have a final solution, I have put a file
"doc/en/README.translators.txt" (with some words about how to create
screenshots) into the source tree, that might serve the same purpose
as the 'auto-generated' file, for the moment.

For me the solution with the overlay gives some difficulty when
building some "real" document: it would require stripping/removing
that "overlay" again when creating/rendering the documentation.

The "filename" solution would be simpler, that can be done by some
simple "rename" operation, like for example renaming *.generated.png
to *.png. As we have to do something in the KDE scripts, I think the
filename/renaming solution is the one that is much easier to implement
and has practically no additional dependencies to other tools.
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