Package: kdebase-kio-plugins
Version: 4:3.1.3-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I upgraded from KDE 2.x konqueror to KDE 3.x konqueror by running
apt-get install konqueror
Unfortunately I could not view thumbnails, and since I am on dialup I
cannot randomly try out various packages but rather look at package
descriptions to see if a certain package fills my need.
kdebase-kio-plugins currently says:
Description: KDE I/O Slaves
KDE I/O Slaves
.
This package is part of the official KDE base module.
This is not very descriptive and did not lead me to the solution
that I need this packet. Especially it repeats the Short description
in the long description. I would suggest somthing like
Description: KDE I/O Slaves
This packet contains various internal helper tools for many KDE
programms, like e.g. konqueror. If you need to access e.g. zip-files
transparently or view previews, you have to install this paket.
.
This package is part of the official KDE base module.
.
KDE is an advanced desktop environment.
Possibly even the Short description should be reformulated to give
a novice an idea.
I mark this as a bug, because policy 3.4 says:
The description should describe the package (the program) to a user
(system administrator) who has never met it before so that they have
enough information to decide whether they want to install it. This
description should not just be copied verbatim from the program's
documentation.
And as a user/system administrator I might know what KDE is (though it
won't hurt to explain that as well, suppose I just learned Gnome
coming from e.g. another common OS and now start to explore my
system), but not even having a full sentence specific to the package,
and "KDE I/O Slaves" which contains two acronyms and one technical
term is not "descriptive" to someone who has never met it before (and
I have used KDE 2.x, so I even heard about I/O Slaves, just I did not
know that I needed them in konquerer as I could see the images just
fine when clicking on them).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux sixtyfor 2.4.21-pre1 #1 Don Okt 2 18:27:25 CEST 2003 alpha
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages kdebase-kio-plugins depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.1.4-3 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.8-1 The Gnome 2 canvas widget - runtim
ii libc6.1 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.6.10-6 client library to control the FAM
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-4 GCC support library
ii libjpeg62 6b-5 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libldap2 2.1.23-1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpcre3 4.3-3 Philip Hazel's Perl 5 Compatible R
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-4 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.1-6 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsmbclient 3.0.1-2 shared library that allows applica
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-5 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibs 4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-3 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
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