Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: empathy
Ubuntu Intrepid alpha 3
1. Open Add/Remove Applications.
2. From the "Show" menu, choose "All Open Source applications".
3. Choose the "Internet" category.
4. Scroll through the list to find "Empathy Instant Messenger".
5. Read the description.
What you see:
Empathy Instant Messenger
High-level library and user-interface for Telepathy
Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging
widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and
Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to
permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk
libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be
embeded [sic] into any GNOME application.
This packet contains the empathy IM application and account manager.
What you should see: A description that actually helps end users decide
whether they want to install the program. If this description uses the
words "consists of", "desktop integration", "embeded" (or "embedded"),
"GNOME", "Gossip", "high-level", "libempathy", "library", "main goal",
"Nokia's Mission Control", "packet", "rich", "Telepathy", "UI", "user-
interface", or "widgets", you're doing it wrong.
A useful description might mention which types of account you can use
with Empathy, and any interesting features it has.
** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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empathy package description is near-useless to end users
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259788
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