[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#538922: /usr/bin/olive-gtk: olive-gtk doesn't say what it is.

[Greg Kochanski]

Package: bzr-gtk
Version: 0.95.0+bzr649-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/olive-gtk


When you run olive for the first time, it shows you a
picture of an olive.     If you don't happen to start
it in a bzr directory, it doesn't give you many clues
as to what the heck it does.

The only clue is the titlebar which says "Olive - Bazaar GUI".
Obviously, if you know that Bazaar is a version control system,
you could guess at what it does.   But, though it may be
surprising, quite a number of adults I surveyed
associate the word "bazaar" with a middle-Eastern shopping
experience rather than with programming tools.

The "Help" menu isn't helpful, because it only gives credits.

"Help" should give the user a 1-sentence summary of what the
program does.   Explaining thing is, after all, what it's
there for.   I'd suggest this:

"Olive is a graphical front end that lets you conveniently
control the Bazaar (bzr) distributed version control system.
This program lets you track changes to a group of files
and collaboratively work on programs or documents."


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bzr-gtk depends on:
ii  bzr                           1.16.1-1   easy to use distributed version co
ii  python                        2.5.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central                0.6.11     register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-glade2                 2.14.1-3   GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gtk2                   2.14.1-3   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-notify                 0.1.1-2+b1 Python bindings for libnotify

Versions of packages bzr-gtk recommends:
ii  bzr-dbus                     0.1~bzr39-1 D-Bus announcements plugin for Baz
ii  python-cairo                 1.8.4-3     Python bindings for the Cairo vect
ii  python-gnome2-desktop        2.24.1-1    Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gnomekeyring          2.24.1-1+b2 Python bindings for the GNOME keyr
ii  python-gtksourceview2        2.6.0-1     Python bindings for the GtkSourceV
ii  python-nautilus              0.5.1-2     Python binding for Nautilus compon
ii  seahorse                     2.26.1-2    GNOME front end for GnuPG

Versions of packages bzr-gtk suggests:
pn  bzr-avahi                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  bzr-loom                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  bzr-search                    <none>     (no description available)

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