[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#644361: Bug#644361: fcitx: Typos in package description
Aron Xu wrote:
>> While trying to torment it into an appropriate shape I've ended up
>> with this version instead:
>>
>> Description: Free Chinese Input Toy of X
>> ?Fcitx is an Input Method framework providing a graphical interface for
>> ?entering Chinese characters in a variety of applications and using a
>> ?variety of mapping systems.
>> ?.
>
> Why again "entering Chinese characters"? I'm afraid we need rephrasing
> here in near future (month-ish).
Because it'll cover more languages? In that case you might just be
able to change s/Chinese/CJK/. Another approach would be to say "a
graphical interface to support [character input in] writing systems
such as Chinese [or...]".
>> ?Despite its humble name and beginnings, it offers a pleasant and
>> ?modern experience, with intuitive graphical configuration tools and
>> ?customizable skins and mapping tables. It is highly modularized and
>> ?extensible, with GTK and Qt front-ends, support for back-end UIs
I'd better doublecheck: does that phrase "back-end UIs" make sense?
>> ?based on Fbterm, pure Xlib, GTK, or KDE, and a developer-friendly API.
>> ?.
>> ?This metapackage pulls in a set of components recommended for most
>> ?desktop Fcitx users.
>>
>> (I'm probably garbling those features, too. ?For instance, how much
>> else is there that you might configure besides the skins and tables?
>
> The configuration is very detailed. Here is an incomplete list:
[...]
Then I definitely can't say just that it has "intuitive graphical
configuration tools for customizing skins and mapping tables" without
summarizing its other configurable features; I'd be better off leaving
it as in the quoted version above. Or of course it could be
"intuitive graphical configuration tools for customizing skins,
mapping tables, and many other features."
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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