Bug#338026: ITP: gnormalize -- gnormalize is a front-end to normalize, an audio converter, encoder, ripper, meta data (tag) editor and audio cd player

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:27:06PM -0800, Michael Stilkerich wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Michael Stilkerich <ms@mike2k.de>
> 
> 
> * Package name    : gnormalize
>   Version         : 0.46
>   Upstream Author : Claudio Fernandes de Souza Rodrigues <claudiofsr@yahoo.com>
> * URL             : http://gnormalize.sourceforge.net/
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : gnormalize is a front-end to normalize, an audio converter, encoder, ripper, meta data (tag) editor and audio cd player

That's a *very* long "short" description.  Common practice is to keep it
under about 60 characters.  How about this:

Graphical audio ripper, encoder, converter, player and tag editor

Although I'll be the first to agree that is a thoroughly ugly sentence
construction.  A more general form:

Graphical music file creation and manipulation tool

Or perhaps:

Music file creation and manipulation tool for GNOME

(That is, assuming that the 'g' in gnormalize is a GNOME 'g' and not some
other 'g')

Although this short form doesn't list all of the specific capabilities of
the tool, it should be enough to give people enough info to decide whether
they want to look at the long description.  You could then use the short
description you originally provided as the first paragraph of the long
description, which is a good introduction to the tool.

- Matt