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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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