epiphany-webkit description is repetitive and contradicts itself

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: epiphany-browser

Ubuntu Intrepid, all updates installed

1. Open Add/Remove Applications.
2. In the "Internet" category, select "Epiphany Browser (Webkit)".

What you see:
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Epiphany is a simple yet powerful GNOME web browser targeted at non-technical users. Its principles are simplicity and standards compliance. Simplicity is achieved by a well designed user interface and reliance on external applications for performing external tasks (such as reading email). Simplicity should not mean less powerful. Standards compliance is achieved on the HTML side by using the Gecko rendering engine, as developed for the Mozilla and Firefox browsers; and on the user interface side by closely following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and by close integration with the GNOME desktop.

This version uses the Webkit backend to render web pages.
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There are several problems with this description.
1. That a program is "a GNOME program" doesn't mean anything unless you're familiar with the Gnome project, which most Ubuntu users are not.
2. "Non-technical users" is an ironically-technical way of limiting the program's target audience, and not likely to help anyone choose it.
3. The word "simple" or "simplicity" is used four times, which is three times too many for such a short description.
4. That Epiphany relies on external applications for reading e-mail is not worth mentioning: almost all other modern Web browsers do this too (with the exceptions of Opera, AOL, and MSN Explorer).
5. "Simplicity should not mean less powerful" is a grammatical truism: a noun can't mean an adjective phrase.
6. Standards compliance is about much more than just HTML.
7. That it uses Gecko is false. It uses WebKit.
8. The Gnome Human Interface Guidelines are not "standards", and are of practically no interest to users.
9. "Close integration with the GNOME desktop" doesn't mean anything unless you're familiar with the Gnome project, which most Ubuntu users are not.
10. That it uses Webkit is false. It uses WebKit.
11. "Backend" is not a word unless you're a programmer.

I suggest:
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Epiphany is a simple but powerful Web browser.

This version uses the WebKit rendering engine.
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If there are any particular features worth promoting, they can be mentioned in the first paragraph.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the description is coming from debian and sending the bug to their bug tracker would be useful