Topic on Talk:BlueSpice

Hi!

In the translatable messages of BlueSpiceAvatars, there are "avatars" and "user pictures".

What's the difference?

@Mglaser @RichardHeigl @ItSpiderman

Hi!

Thanks for reaching out. For my understanding there is no difference.

In BlueSpice, every user account gets a "profile picture" that is shown next to the username in certain places. Users can upload their own image files, but if they don't, there will still be auto generated images. One could probably refer to the first one as "user pictures" (uploaded by the user) and to the second one as "avatars" (automatically generated), but I don't see a real reason for this.

Thanks! This message appears to make a distinction: "You have set a user picture in your preferences. Using avatars will clear this setting. Do you want to proceed?"

I'm not entirely sure how to translate it into my language. We don't have a common, established translation for "avatar", and one possibility is to write something like "user picture", but "user picture" appears to be used in English for something else.

Perhaps that message could be rewritten like this: "You have set a user picture in your preferences. Using auto-generated avatars will clear this setting. Do you want to proceed?" (It's just a guess, thought.)

I see. Yes, your proposal makes sense. Thanks.