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Re: Bug#233205: ITP: perlpanel -- A lean Gtk2 panel written in Perl



Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 05:58, Marc Brockschmidt wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> 
>> * Package name    : perlpanel
>>   Version         : 0.3.1
>>   Upstream Author : Gavin Brown <gavin.brown@uk.com>
>> * URL             : http://jodrell.net/projects/perlpanel/
>> * License         : GPL-2
>>   Description     : A lean Gtk2 panel written in Perl
>
> I would suggest "lean menu and launcher panel written in Perl and GTK"
>
I'd suggest "lean menu and launcher panel written in Perl using GTK+
2" (drop the + and/or 2 at your convinience). At least to my ears
(non-native speaker), it sounds bad to say to you write something "in
GTK". You write in "programming language X", but not in "toolkit Y"
/methinks.

Andy
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