[Clipart] PR for 0.16

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:13 -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> "Nicu Buculei (OCAL)" <nicu at apsro.com> writes:
> 
> > Adding the author name to the file name is a trick we added later to
> > ensure unique file names, it is NOT the authoritative mean to
> > determine the author, 
> 
> Also, it is not the authoritative means to determine the title either.
> It is convenient to have the filenames generated that way, so that
> most of the filenames are related to the contents of the image, making
> it easier for people to find images of a certain thing, but in the end
> the filename's *core* purpose is to be unique for each unique image,
> and the real way to determine the author, title, and so on is from the
> metadata.
> 
> > >> How about "Browse Library" ?
> > > Why not ? Library is near "Librairie" in French.
> 
> "Browse the Library" makes sense to me, or perhaps "Browse the Clipart
> Online".
> 
> Similarity to words in French or any other language is mostly
> incidental, since ultimately the website as it stands is in English,
> and the correct way to internationalise it would be to have someone
> actually, you know, *translate* it -- which, incidentally, would
> become an ongoing task, as the site never stays 100% the same for very
> long.  Frankly I am more interested in internationalising the
> collection itself, as has been discussed, although if someone wants to
> put the time into i18n for the website I have no objection.

Can someone file a bug about this? I've heard this a few times.

Maybe we need to use the <blink>...</blink> tag for the browse link. ;)

Jon

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