Chance to positon of description and the packpage name

Bug #536773 reported by Tommi Saira
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Playdeb
Invalid
Undecided
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software-center (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Matthew Paul Thomas

Bug Description

Chance the place of description and the packpage name becose it is very hard to just take a look of programs avaible when the text is so small. In synaptic this isn`t an problem. An image if you didn`t get my point off my poor english: http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/553/lps.png

João Pinto (joaopinto)
Changed in playdeb:
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Tommi, thanks for the report, but this is by design.

Package names can contain no spaces and no capital letters. Because of this, they can never be human-friendly. For that reason, we give more prominence to the synopsis, which can be human-friendly.

The Debian Policy Manual says "Put important information first, both in the synopsis and extended description." <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-descriptions> If astromenace's synopsis says it is a "3D space shooter" but doesn't say *which* 3D space shooter it is, it's not following that rule as well as it should.

"Add/Remove Software" (from packagekit-gnome) takes the same approach: the synopsis is first and bold, and the package name is second and not bold.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
status: New → Invalid
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