[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#636779: gtk2-engines-xfce - please reconsider package description

[Justin B Rye]

Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote [incorporating the PS]:
> updating the German package description I thought about a way to
> make the description more concise and better to comprehend.
> 
> The existing description:
> 
> Description: GTK+-2.0 theme engine for Xfce
>  This package contains an Xfce engine for GTK2.0 which makes you able
>  to use various GTK2.0 themes with Xfce. It also contains some ready
>  themes, but you are of course free to design your own.

Hmm, yes, "makes you able to use" is fairly horrible.

> Description: GTK+-2.0 themes for Xfce
>   This package contains an Xfce program which can use various GTK2.0
>   themes. It also contains some ready themes, but of course you are free
>   to design your own.

No, that doesn't say the same thing - gtk2-engines-xfce doesn't
contain an executable that happens to use a particular theme, it
contains some sort of plugin library thing... "theme engine" is rather
a developer-centric label for it, but as long as the text goes on to
describe what good it is that should be okay.  So maybe:

  Description: GTK+-2.0 theme engine for Xfce
   This package contains a theme engine allowing users to apply
   various GTK2.0 themes to Xfce. It also contains some ready
   themes, but users are of course free to design their own.

(Eliminating a couple of second person pronouns on the grounds that it
works for every other user on the system too.)

> I should not file bugs at this time of the day :-(.

I do most of my best work at this time of day, though admittedly it's
not usually not after this much wine.
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package