On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:12:24PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 23:14, Andrew Fitzsimon wrote:
http://andy.fitzsimon.com.au/obman/docset.png http://andy.fitzsimon.com.au/obman/docset2.png
The abbreviation "Info" should not be used, abbreviations make English harder to understand for non-native speakers and even native speakers will need to take an extra fraction of a second to mentally unscramble it. Anyway from an Internationalisation point of view there needs to be enough space in the user interface to accomodate other languages that are more verbose, so there is no advantage to be gained by the abbreviation. (You might also consider putting the Custom name,value pairs into a seperate tab as it would provide much more room as there could potentially be many other bits of metadata. Offhand I can think of Date, Copyright (which includes licensing), keywords, being needed for OpenClipart.org content). The item "Insert OpenClipart.org RDF" is very specific and could be confusing to new users who have discovered Inkscape through their Linux distribution, perhaps this could be changed to insert metadata from file/template and one of those templates would be the OpenClipart.org metadata?
I have actually started this tab already (well, the ideas, anyway). The code is not far along at all, since I didn't have any good text-entry examples. :) But I did commit the changes needed to correctly track the RDF namespace in the XML.
I named the tab "Description". The items I was going to include were:
Title (dc:title) (freeform) Date (dc:date) (date) Author (dc:creator) (freeform) Owner (dc:rights) (freeform) Source (dc:source) (url) Keywords (dc:subject) (freeform) Description (dc:description) (freeform) License (license tag and License section) (pulldown)
(dc:type will be set to always contain rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage")
For the "License" section, I am initially going to just have a pull-down of: Custom Creative Commons Attribution Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Public Domain
If "Custom" is selected, they can fill in another box that holds a URL.