FS#24314 - [all gtk+ packages] Package description a recursive acronym

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Mitchell Richters (mjr4077au) - Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 01:01 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 10 October 2011, 11:09 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The package description from all GTK+ packages is "The GTK+ Toolkit (*version number)". That's basically saying "The GIMP Toolkit+ Tooklit (*verson number*). Perhaps it should be changed?

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Monday, 10 October 2011, 11:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  in trunk
Comment by Tim G (timgws) - Thursday, 19 May 2011, 12:56 GMT
Looking at http://www.pygtk.org/about.html, PyGTK refers to gtk+ as "The GTK+ toolkit".

Also, a quick Google search ( http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+GTK%2B+Toolkit%22 ) suggests that 459,000+ pages use the GTK toolkit as an expression.
Comment by Mitchell Richters (mjr4077au) - Thursday, 19 May 2011, 13:04 GMT
This is straight from a devel FAQ: http://developer.gnome.org/gtk-faq/stable/x98.html
Comment by Mitchell Richters (mjr4077au) - Thursday, 19 May 2011, 13:07 GMT
First paragraph here: http://developer.gnome.org/gtk-tutorial/stable/c24.html
Comment by Fabian Homborg (alfa) - Tuesday, 09 August 2011, 00:13 GMT
1) According to www.gtk.org it is called the "GIMP Toolkit"
2) According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#pkgdesc" :
"The description should be about 80 characters or less and should not include the package name in a self-referencing way."

So this should be rewritten as "A toolkit for X11" or similar.
This exists in gtk2 2.24.5-3.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 08 September 2011, 18:30 GMT
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gtk+.doap

"GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit "
Comment by Mitchell Richters (mjr4077au) - Thursday, 08 September 2011, 21:03 GMT
That's much better than what we have at the moment. Right now, we're saying "The GIMP Tool Kit+ Toolkit, if you expand it out". It's like people who say "NIC card".
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Friday, 09 September 2011, 06:07 GMT
are you guys fine with this for:

gtk2: GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit (v2)
gtk3: GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit (v3)

i don't care about gtk (imo we should drop it)
Comment by Mitchell Richters (mjr4077au) - Friday, 09 September 2011, 09:05 GMT
As Fabian pointed out, it is self-referencing, which against the packaging policy. I'm not that fastidious though. I'm fine with what you've proposed :).

I second the dropping of gtk, it's only use is for xmms, and Audacious is a good replacement for that :)

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