Re: Use of "Qt Addons"

On Wednesday 08 January 2014 10:35:37 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've just read an article on pro-linux.de based on our most recent KDE
> Frameworks 5 dot article.
> 
> It seems that the use of "Qt Addon" without any more detailed explanation
> has lead to it being translated as "Plugin for Qt". Which in this context
> is unfortunately not correct.
> 
> Basically the misconception was that KDE Libs is a collection of libraries
> while KDE Frameworks 5 is a collection of plugins for Qt.
> 
> KF5 is still a collection of libraries, i.e. developers need to explicitly
> decide to use them, they are build time dependencies, etc,
> 
> Plugins, on the other hand, usually refer to things that developers do not
> use directly, but which are available at runtime and are loaded by Qt when
> needed.
> 
> I am not sure how to best approach this, i.e. whether we can add a
> definition of Qt Addon to those articles without breaking the flow of them
> or if we just "send patches" to article authors that get it wrong until
> better translations have established themselves.
> 
> Any thoughts?

We can edit the articles, I think. And at the same time send notes to the 
article authors ;-)

inqlude.org should also have a very clear definition to prevent issues.

I will go over the articles we've written, see what I can fix. Worst case - I 
can add comments on the bottom.

/J

> Cheers,
> Kevin


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