Bug#215103: ITP: gmasqdialer -- gtk/gnome client for masqdialer server
Quoting Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net>:
> That distinction should be put in the long description then, not the
> short description.
Ok, maybe an example of why this is bad is needed here, imagine this scenario,
I'm using apt-cache search to find a web server I want. So I do apt-cache
search webserver. With your suggestion we would get results like this
apache - a web server
boa - a web server
roxen - a web server
thttpd - a web server
I think it's pretty obvious that this makes the short description pretty
worthless. We would have the same problem with masqdialer clients:
cmasqdialer - client for masqdialer
gmasqdialer - client for masqdialer
jmasqdialer - client for masqdialer
qmasqdialer - client for masqdialer
Instead, I would like to see something more useful to the user like this:
cmasqdialer - command line client for masqdialer
gmasqdialer - gtk client for masqdialer
jmasqdialer - java client for masqdialer
qmasqdialer - qt client for masqdialer
This allows the user to much more easily choose the one they want, instead of
guessing what the letters in front of the name might mean.
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Daniel E. Markle
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