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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Michael Vogt wrote on 08/03/11 08:24:
>...
> Matthew McGowan put up this branch that displays what binaries are in
> a application if it does not provide a desktop file. I really like
> this feature and I think its quite useful (and applies to technical
> items only so we can assume that its only seen by people interessted
> in this sort of details).
>
> What do you guys think about it? It should be small enough to get a
> exception for natty.
>...

I like this idea. The wording needs a bit of work though.

Instead of

    Vim-tiny does not provide an application launcher, however, it does
    include the following executables:

        /usr/bin/vim.tiny

I suggest

    This program is run from a terminal: /usr/bin/vim.tiny

I also suggest limiting this only to packages that have, say, six or
fewer executables.

    These programs are run from a terminal: apport-cli, apport-unpack,
    apport-bug, apport-collect, ubuntu-bug

That way we avoid the case where the coreutils executable list swamps
the description.

As a general point, anywhere you are tempted to capitalize the first
letter of a package name, please treat that as a clue that you should be
either using either the title or short name instead
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#software-title>, or redesigning
to avoid using any identifier at all.

Thanks
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mpt
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