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[Matthew McGowan <matthew.joseph.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the case where a package has many executable files could we do something
along these lines:

"This package contains 13 executables" Show | Hide


On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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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
> - --
> mpt
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