Bug#590062: Kindly update cheese description

2010-07-27 Thread Vishnoo
Or if the current suggestion/patch is not perfect, Is there any change
that can be made?

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Bug#590062: Kindly update cheese description

2010-07-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 23 juillet 2010 à 16:49 +0530, Vishnoo a écrit :
 The use of the word cheesy is misleading and can be mistaken for an
 inferior quality program:

I think you should buy yourself a sense of humor. The program’s name was
chosen exactly for this reason.

 chees·y –adjective
 Slang . inferior or cheap; chintzy: The movie's special effects are cheesy 
 and unconvincing.
 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cheesy

Precisely the kind of effects that cheese is restricted to.

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Bug#590062: Kindly update cheese description

2010-07-26 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 09:06 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
 Le vendredi 23 juillet 2010 à 16:49 +0530, Vishnoo a écrit :
  The use of the word cheesy is misleading and can be mistaken for an
  inferior quality program:
 
 I think you should buy yourself a sense of humor. The program’s name was
 chosen exactly for this reason.

Hi,

No disrespect to the original description.

The program name was chosen from the common usage in English Say
Cheese. 
In English , its meant as an instruction used by photographers who want
their subject to smile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_cheese

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Bug#590062: Kindly update cheese description

2010-07-23 Thread Vishnoo
Package: cheese
Version: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
Severity: minor

Current description:
Cheese is a cheesy program to take pictures and videos from your webcam. It 
also provides some graphical effects inorder to please the user's play instinct.

The use of the word cheesy is misleading and can be mistaken for an inferior 
quality program:
chees·y –adjective
Slang . inferior or cheap; chintzy: The movie's special effects are cheesy and 
unconvincing.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cheesy

[Suggested description]:

A webcam application that supports image and video capture. Makes it easy to 
take photos and videos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want. Allows 
you to apply fancy visual effects, fine-control image settings and has features 
such as Multi Burst Mode, Countdown Timer for photos.

Kindly update the description

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers lucid-updates
  APT policy: (900, 'lucid-updates'), (900, 'lucid-security'), (600, 'lucid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-020635rc3-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cheese depends on:
ii  cheese-common 2.30.1-0ubuntu1Common files for the Cheese tool t
ii  gstreamer0.10 0.10.28-1  GStreamer plugins from the base 
ii  gstreamer0.10 0.10.21-1ubuntu3   GStreamer plugins from the good 
ii  gstreamer0.10 0.10.28-1  GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii  libatk1.0-0   1.30.0-0ubuntu2.1  The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2 1.8.10-2ubuntu1The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-g 0.22-1ubuntu2  Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0  0.22-1ubuntu2  a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libcheese-gtk 2.30.1-0ubuntu1A tool to take pictures and videos
ii  libdbus-1-3   1.2.16-2ubuntu4simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib- 0.84-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig 2.8.0-2ubuntu1 generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6  2.3.11-1ubuntu2.1  FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4   2.28.1-0ubuntu1GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.24.1-0ubuntu1The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desk 1:2.30.2-0ubuntu1  Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgstreamer- 0.10.28-1  GStreamer libraries from the base
ii  libgstreamer0 0.10.28-1  Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0   2.20.1-0ubuntu2~papercuts1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgudev-1.0- 1:151-12   GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libpango1.0-0 1.28.0-0ubuntu2Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-22.26.3-0ubuntu1SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libstartup-no 0.10-1build1   library for program launch feedbac
ii  libudev0  151-12 udev library
ii  libxml2   2.7.6.dfsg-1ubuntu1GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15ubuntu1   compression library - runtime

cheese recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cheese suggests:
ii  nautilus-sendto  2.28.4-0ubuntu1 integrates Evolution and Pidgin in

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