Gnome-app-install has no discriptions about programs. The worst example is "Web
browser - Browse the web". It looks like it's taken from the standard gnome menu
text (that will be visible after installation).
Problem is:
a) "Web browser" is for epiphany, which a) not a clear description, and b) we're
using Firefox as default. I don't know how this should be solved in a nice way,
but I don't know what the point is in offering epiphany, Mozilla, and Mozilla
Firefox in the same "gnome app install" menu anyway. No user needing the
gnome-app-install tool wants to drop firefox in favor of either of those apps.
Maybe it would make things more sensible when the gnome-app-install menu was
manually maintained, instead of extracted from a gnome menu (that's what
happens, right?)
a) It would be nice to see a bit more detailed discription. I know synaptic will
provide that, but that's a step too far for many.
There are various problems here:
- we could easily use the long description of the package (that synaptic also
uses), but it
will not be translated (whereas the current short description is translated)
- there is no really good place to put the long description just now (we can't
use tooltips
here)
So I think we won't be able to show a long description for hoary.