My experiences with tellico, a few bugs and possible enhancements

[Jens Seidel]

Hi,

after a few days playing with tellico I also noticed problems which I
want to report (exists a bug tracking system?):

* The documentation is not always accessible, e.g.:
  http://periapsis.org/tellico/doc/installation.html:
   Forbidden
   You don't have permission to access /tellico/doc/installation.html on
   this server.
   Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to
   use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. 

* I selected "No formatting" for the description and the title, which
  consists of "%{year} %{denomination} %{description}". Nevertheless
  the capitalisation of the title is modified. I entered
  "Adler mit kleinem Brustschild" but got "Adler Mit Kleinem Brustschild".
* Please note that such a formatting is not useful for most languages.
  IIRC Japanese and Chinese do not support capitalisation at all. AFAIK
  only English uses such a formatting.
  I first thougt it would be a good idea to provide this functionality
  only for a few locales but it is not true since I can also edit
  English entries in a German locale. What about a new "Language" field
  which defaults to "" or the locale language and allow formatting only
  if $language=="English" || $language==i18n("English")?
  Still not a perfect solution ...
  The same applied to the "Format titles and names" printing option.
* I changed the type of a catalog number field from text to number and
  tellico did not complain, even with values like "17a" in the
  collection. Great! Now I got the correct sorting order ("4"<"17a") and
  assumed that tellico also handles non numerical characters in such
  fields. But the field value in the top right widget (column view)
  vanished! So it is not properly supported.

  What is suggested for such catalog numbers?
  - Text, results in wrong sorting
  - Use number type and allow also non numerical characters but sort
    numbers properly
  - Split field into a number ("17") and a text field ("a") and display
    both always side on side to get "17 a"
* Once a collection vanished tellico complains that it cannot open it.
  This error occurs not only once but on each start!
* I decided to save pictures outside tellicos .tc file. I tried to open
  the collection from another user account and tellico did not found any
  of my pictures. Why do you do not save just the filenames instead of a
  hash? I also noticed that tellico creates copies of the pictures in
  .kde/share/apps/tellico/data/. This is not wanted!
* The XML file uses the tag <scott>. Nevertheless my stamp collection doesn't
  use scott catalog numbers (I don't know these), but Michel ones (which are
  protected by copyright, grml!!! Any solution to this?). Why not use
  <catalog_number>?
* Plural forms of tags are very funny: I see <katalogpreiss> for
  <katalogpreis> (English plural rule for German words :-))
  Tellico also doesn't check for user supplied fields with appended "s",
  whichs XML tag collidates with the plural form!

I attached another update for the German translation. I hope it
stabilises soon :-) Please note that the patch contains also the
errors reported in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313839
which were never properly fixed during the last 17 months.

Please add a proper translator comment to "Denomination", my dictionary
contained many possible translations and I selected initially the wrong
one.

Jens
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