Rephrase "Polygons" as "Shapes" where suitable

[akx]

Duplicate/Delete/... will work on not-polygon shapes, so it's a bit strange that the actions talk about Polygons only.

[wkentaro]

I agree "Polygons" is no longer suitable. Maybe "Annotation" can be an option?

[akx]

The term "shape" is used internally in the code, though. I think it's alright?

[wkentaro]

right. flags is also a part of "Annotation", so only calling shapes as "Annotation" is probably not consistent.

let's stick with "Shapes" for now, and come back when needed.

[wkentaro]

can you also try to update translation file? otherwise, I'll do when I can.

[akx]

Done (by hand). Are there instructions somewhere on how to regenerate those translation files?

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR updates user-facing text in the labelme application to use more generic terminology, changing "Polygons" to "Shapes" where appropriate. This improves the user experience by accurately reflecting that the duplicate, delete, copy, paste, hide, show, and toggle operations work on all shape types, not just polygons.

Key changes:

• Updated action labels and tooltips to use "Shapes" instead of "Polygons"
• Modified confirmation dialog messages to reference "shapes" rather than "polygons"
• Updated translation source strings in both English template and Chinese translation files

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

File	Description
labelme/app.py	Updated action labels, tooltips, and dialog messages from "Polygons" to "Shapes"
labelme/translate/empty.ts	Updated English translation template with new "Shapes" terminology
labelme/translate/zh_CN.ts	Updated Chinese translation source strings to use "Shapes" terminology

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[wkentaro]

Done (by hand). Are there instructions somewhere on how to regenerate those translation files?

Actually I too forgot how to do since long from last time. I'll make CI so we don't.

brew install qt@5 pyqt@5  # mac
pylupdate5 labelme/*.py labelme/widgets/*.py -ts labelme/translate/zh_CN.ts
lrelease labelme/translate/zh_CN.ts -qm labelme/translate/zh_CN.qm

[wkentaro]

just merged #1636. can you please reset the change on the translation files?

[akx]

Re-ran make update_translate.

[wkentaro]

you cannot just update translation files right?

need the same replacement of "Polygon" -> "Shape" in the translation file.

[akx]

need the same replacement of "Polygon" -> "Shape" in the translation file.

I can do that, but according to e.g. Google Translate, 编辑多边形 means "Edit Polygon" in Chinese, not "Edit Shape", so if I do that, then the Chinese translation would be mistranslated from the (new) original.

[wkentaro]

Either is fine. If you gonna do translation by yourself, I personally trust DeepL more.