Package: cortina
Version: 0.7.3-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
The package description for cortina contains several fairly trivial
typos and language errors. Currently:
> Description: Wallpaper changer for gnome
DevRef recommends not capitalising the first word of the synopsis,
whereas GNOME on the other hand should be all-caps. But this isn't a
great short description for cortina anyway, since it undersells its
capabilities. Even xsetroot can claim to be a wallpaper changer; it
would make more sense for cortina to use the upstream description
"desktop wallpaper management application for GNOME".
> Cortina can rotate wallpapers by time and works as an tray application
s/an tray/a tray/, but rotating wallpapers by time makes it sound
vaguely as if it performs 90° image rotations in the fourth dimension
or something. What you mean is that it can cycle through wallpaper
images at a specified interval.
> with an configuration interface. Is a simple wallpaper changer for GNOME
Again s/an/a/, and a missing article before GNOME.
> desktop, lightweight and perform all its task quicky and swiftly.
Word salad, with a typo (s/quicky/quickly) and a meaningless
repetition (it's quick *and* swift?) - reorganise it as "simple,
lightweight, and fast-working". But this basic intro should have come
first, with the details about tray apps coming second.
So that's:
| Description: desktop wallpaper management application for GNOME
| Cortina is a simple, lightweight, and fast-working wallpaper changer for
| the GNOME desktop. It can cycle through wallpapers at a specified
| interval, and works as a tray application with a configuration interface.
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JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru cortina-0.7.3.pristine/debian/control cortina-0.7.3/debian/control
--- cortina-0.7.3.pristine/debian/control 2011-06-29 04:33:28.000000000 +0100
+++ cortina-0.7.3/debian/control 2012-07-07 14:48:11.371392634 +0100
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
Package: cortina
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, gconf2 (>= 2.28)
-Description: Wallpaper changer for gnome
- Cortina can rotate wallpapers by time and works as an tray application
- with an configuration interface. Is a simple wallpaper changer for GNOME
- desktop, lightweight and perform all its task quicky and swiftly.
+Description: desktop wallpaper management application for GNOME
+ Cortina is a simple, lightweight, and fast-working wallpaper changer for
+ the GNOME desktop. It can cycle through wallpapers at a specified
+ interval, and works as a tray application with a configuration interface.
