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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Copying doc strings into app strings
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2015-09-19 8:11:08
Message-ID: alpine.LNX.2.00.1509191010070.11268 () calcifer ! valdyas ! org
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Hi,

We're trying to edit these strings a bit more. They are shown in the gui, \
in the colorspace browser, in response to users asking for guidance when \
choosing color spaces and profiles. They are a bit chatty, that's true...

Boudewijn


On Sat, 19 Sep 2015, Yuri Chornoivan wrote:

> 19 вересня 2015, 07:57:01, від "Łukasz Wojniłowicz" \
> <lukasz.wojnilowicz@gmail.com>: 
> > Hallo all,
> > 
> > I translate Krita and encountered such string.
> > 
> > > Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft designed sRGB to match the color gamut \
> > > of consumer-grade CRTs from the 1990s. sRGB is the standard color \
> > > space for the world wide web and is still the best choice for \
> > > exporting images to the internet.
> 
> The sRGB color gamut was a good match to calibrated
> > > decent quality CRTs. But sRGB is not a good match to many \
> > > consumer-grade LCD monitors, which often can't display the more \
> > > saturated sRGB blues and magentas (the good news: as technology \
> > > progresses, wider gamuts are trickling down to consumer grade \
> > > monitors).
> 
> Printer color gamuts
> > > can easily exceed the sRGB color gamut in cyans, greens, and \
> > > yellow-greens. Colors from interpolated camera raw files also often \
> > > exceed the sRGB color gamut.
> 
> As a very relevant aside, using perceptual intent when
> > > converting to sRGB does not magically makes otherwise out of gamut \
> > > colors fit inside the sRGB color gamut! The standard sRGB color space \
> > > (along with all the other the RGB profiles provided in my profile \
> > > pack) is a matrix profile, and matrix profiles don't have perceptual \
> > > intent tables.
> > 
> > It looks like lengthy text copy-pasted from Wikipedia and in my opinion \
> > should  be put in documentation for Krita. There are many more of such \
> > strings e.g. 
> > > To avoid possible copyright infringement issues, I used 'WideRGB' as \
> > > the base name for these profiles.
> 
> WideGamutRGB was designed by Adobe to
> > > be a wide gamut color space that uses spectral colors as its \
> > > primaries. Pascale's primary values produce a profile that matches \
> > > old V2 Widegamut profiles from Adobe and Canon. It's an interesting \
> > > color space, but shortly after its introduction, Adobe switched their \
> > > emphasis to the ProPhotoRGB color space.
> > 
> > This string looks like snippet out of developer's diary...
> > 
> > Are there no conditions for strings to be assigned either doc or app \
> > string? Regards
> > LW
> 
> Hi,
> 
> These strings are from the new color profiles package. Personally, I do \
> not think they can be separated into docs in the common sense. The notes \
> were copied from the original work by Elle Stone. The only way to make \
> them easier to translate is to shorten them (just my 2 cents). 
> The message is cc-ed to calligra-devel for further consideration.
> 
> Best regards,
> Yuri
> 
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