Bug 363062

Summary: Wrong German translation of Levels menu item and dialog
Product: [Translations] i18n Reporter: Sven Claussner <scl.gplus>
Component: deAssignee: German-Translators <kde-i18n-de>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: halla, schwarzer
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Sven Claussner 2016-05-14 09:16:44 UTC 
The German translation of the Levels menu and dialog don't use terms from the application domain.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Filter/Adjust (in German: Filter/Anpassen).
2. Click Levels... (in German: Stufen...)

or 
1. Add a filter layer.
2. Choose the Levels... fiter (in German: Stufen...)

Actual Results:  
The German translation uses: 
Levels... : Stufen
Input Levels: Eingangsstufen
Output Levels: Ausgangsstufen
Auto Levels: Auto Levels (untranslated)

"Stufen" has no meaning in the artistic context.


Expected Results:  
The German translation uses terms that are known to artists. The common term for "Levels" is "Tonwerte". 
Levels... : Tonwerte... or Tonwertkorrektur...
Input Levels: Tonwertspreizung
Output Levels: Tonwertumfang
Auto Levels: Automatisch or Auto

The terms are identical to those Photoshop used to use, so professional artists should be familiar with them.
I already investigated the terms in other FOSS software, but to no avail. Digikam has the feature, but no labels for the input and output levels. GIMP uses "Werte", "Eingabewerte" and "Ausgabewerte" which is as wrong and meaningless as "Stufen".
Comment 1 Frederik Schwarzer 2016-05-22 20:48:34 UTC 
The problem is, that we do not have a domain expert in our team. I could now fix the issues mentioned here (and I will in a week or two) but Krita could be in a way better state, if some domain expert would join the joys of translating KDE. :)
Comment 2 Sven Claussner 2016-05-23 20:04:21 UTC 
Well, here is one ;-)
I'm used to image editing with both free and proprietary professional tools. In case I don't know an answer out of the blue I knew where to look. And I speak German and English.
Comment 3 Halla Rempt 2016-05-23 20:09:47 UTC 
Great!
Comment 4 Frederik Schwarzer 2016-05-23 20:40:55 UTC 
Great indeed. :)
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