Re: Use of "Qt Addons"

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Kevin Krammer <[email protected]> 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?
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> --
> Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
> KDE user support, developer mentoring
>
>
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FWIW, I saw a discussion in the Catalan translation team where they were
discussing about how to translate "Qt Addon", the meaning is not obvious.

Aleix


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