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Re: RFS: evilvte (updated package)



On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:06:48 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:

> > Description: an VTE based super lightweight terminal emulator
> Shouldn't the field start with "a VTE..." instead?

Actually it should start without an article :)

Short descriptions are supposed to work as "noun phrases" or "is a"
phrase, i.e. <package> is a <synopsis>.

In this case "VTE based super lightweight terminal emulator" or maybe
"lightweight terminal emulator based on VTE" might work.

(The whole sentence then would be, with <package> and <snyopsis>
expanded:
"evilvte is a lightweight terminal emulator based on VTE"
)
 
> Now, the point with the problem: it is not, from a user's perspective,
> clear what "VTE" means.

Agreed.

Cheers,
gregor
 
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