Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:07:56PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>> Package: fbpanel
>> Severity: minor
>> 
>> Current description reads:
>> 
>>     Description: A lightweight X11 desktop panel
>>      FBPanel is a spinoff of the fspanel (f***ing small panel) with more eye
>>      candy.  It provides a taskbar (list of all opened windows), desktop
>>      switcher, launchbar, clock, is EWMH/NETWM compliant, and has modest
>>      resource usage.
>> 
>> SUGGESTED CHANGE
>> 
>>     Description: A lightweight X11 desktop panel (GTK2)
>>      FBPanel is a spinoff of the fspanel (f***ing small panel) with more eye
>>      candy.  It provides a taskbar (list of all opened windows), desktop
>>      switcher, launchbar, clock, is EWMH/NETWM compliant, and has modest
>>      resource usage.
>> 
>> When searching for light weight programs for older machines via
>> 
>>     apt-cache search <pattern>
>> 
>> There is big difference between Xlib, GTK1, GTK2, Gnome. Using instructive
>> title helps to concentrate on those interested.
>
> This information is provided by the depends line.  If you're technical
> enough to know that you do/don't want a GTK2-based panel, then you're
> technical enough to work out how to search on the depends.
>
> I'm not keen on cluttering up the description of the package with what is,
> to most users, irrelevant information.

Most people looking for prospective packages do

     apt-get seach <pattern> | less

IT would have helped there, because the search is done for firts line
information.

Jari




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