I demand that David B Harris may or may not have written... > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:02:47 -0400 > Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> David B Harris wrote: >>> As much as you may dislike it, people care about toolkit. I don't >>> understand the witch-hunt to remove references to such things. >> Short description is a limited resource. By all means, put GTK or GNOME in >> the long description if it is deemed necessary; apt searches will still >> find what you're looking for.
> Obviously if the short description is too long, something needs to go - and > in that case, certainly not mentioning the toolkit is reasonable. However, > in this particular case ("gtk/gnome client for masqdialer server", but > really "gnome client for masqdialer" since the "gtk" is assumed when > talking about GNOME) is 35 characters long. I think that GTK/GNOME is valid: a program may make use of GNOME features if the relevant libraries are installed, but still work without them. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... A misguided platypus will lay its eggs in your shorts.