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Re: Bug#718791: ITP: mikutter -- Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client



Thank you for your pointint out.

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 12:38:18PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> >>>  Mikutter is a simple, powerful and moeful twitter client.

> >> I can't find any definition of "moeful" and therefore is more of a
> >> hindrance to understanding the description than an aid.

> It's not immediately obvious how a Twitter client could be "cute", and
> translating it would lose the fact that (judging by the upstream
> website) it's "cute" in a specifically Japanese sense - it's not
> talking about photos of puppies, it means cartoons of young girls...
> 
> Maybe the safest translation would be "anime-themed"?

I just copied mikutter's tag line "simple, powerful and moeful".
I think "simple, powerful" says its extensibility by plugins.
So, I describe:

    Mikutter is a plugin-extensible twitter client.

"moe" (cute, anime, and so on) factor can be omitted in description.

> >>>    * Followee, Follower list 
> >>       ^^^^^^^^
> >>       No such word.
>               
> It does seem as if it should be an unnecessary coinage - aren't the
> things being listed here "subscriptions"?

"Followee" is social networking related slang or new word?
Officially, Twitter says "following (friends) list" and "followers list".

> But what is this line trying to say?  Does mikutter present a single
> list that includes both the accounts you're following and the accounts
> that are following you, or does it have two separate lists?  If it's
> the latter, why not give them a bulletpoint each?

There are two separate lists.

This bulletpoint list is provided at official website formerly,
but it disappers at present.  I just copied like its tag line.
 
> And then what is the "List view" three bullets later?  It's really
> unclear what some of these "views" are talking about.  Some of them
> must be different ways of viewing tweets, but then there are the ones
> like "Profile view".

"Reply view", "Thread view", "Search view" and "List view" are kind of
tweets viewing window. But, "Profile view" and "Activity view" are thiers
specific information viewing window.

> And while it's on debian-l10n-english, here are some extra stylistic
> nitpicks: the synopsis shouldn't be capitalised, Twitter on the other
> hand should be capitalised, there should be a comma before the "and"
> (according to our usual d-l-e house style), the long description
> shouldn't repeat the synopsis, and the bulletpoints don't need to be
> indented that far.  I would suggest a package description like this:
> 
> 
>  Description: simple, powerful anime-themed Twitter client
>   Mikutter is a multi-pane Twitter client with several advanced
>   features:
>    * different tweet views (flat list, threaded list, searches);
>    * user profile and activity views;
>    * lists of followers and subscriptions.
> 
> 
> WARNING: some of that is guesswork, and needs to be replaced by an
> accurate description.

Thank you for your work.  I replaced some parts:

 Description: plugin-extensible Twitter client
  Mikutter is a multi-pane Twitter client with several advanced
  features:
   * different tweet views (flat list, threaded list, searches);
   * user profile and activity views;
   * lists of followers and followings (friends);
   * plugin extensibility.

> ObWhyTheName: the logo and icon are pictures of Hatsune Miku®, so I
> hope Crypton Future Media, Inc don't mind.

"Hatsune Miku"-like logo and icon are replaced for DFSG-free.
I contacted upstream author, then I got DFSG-free logo and icon.
-- 
Regards,
	dai

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