Bug#590062: Kindly update cheese description

Vishnoo vish at ubuntu.com
Fri Jul 23 11:19:32 UTC 2010


Package: cheese
Version: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
Severity: minor

Current description:
Cheese is a cheesy program to take pictures and videos from your webcam. It also provides some graphical effects inorder to please the user's play instinct.

The use of the word "cheesy" is misleading and can be mistaken for an inferior quality program:
chees·y –adjective
Slang . inferior or cheap; chintzy: The movie's special effects are cheesy and unconvincing.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cheesy

[Suggested description]:

A webcam application that supports image and video capture. Makes it easy to take photos and videos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want. Allows you to apply fancy visual effects, fine-control image settings and has features such as Multi Burst Mode, Countdown Timer for photos.

Kindly update the description

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers lucid-updates
  APT policy: (900, 'lucid-updates'), (900, 'lucid-security'), (600, 'lucid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-020635rc3-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cheese depends on:
ii  cheese-common 2.30.1-0ubuntu1            Common files for the Cheese tool t
ii  gstreamer0.10 0.10.28-1                  GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10 0.10.21-1ubuntu3           GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  gstreamer0.10 0.10.28-1                  GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii  libatk1.0-0   1.30.0-0ubuntu2.1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6         2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2     1.8.10-2ubuntu1            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-g 0.22-1ubuntu2              Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0  0.22-1ubuntu2              a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libcheese-gtk 2.30.1-0ubuntu1            A tool to take pictures and videos
ii  libdbus-1-3   1.2.16-2ubuntu4            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib- 0.84-1                     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig 2.8.0-2ubuntu1             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6  2.3.11-1ubuntu2.1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4   2.28.1-0ubuntu1            GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.24.1-0ubuntu1            The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desk 1:2.30.2-0ubuntu1          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgstreamer- 0.10.28-1                  GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0 0.10.28-1                  Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0   2.20.1-0ubuntu2~papercuts1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgudev-1.0- 1:151-12                   GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libpango1.0-0 1.28.0-0ubuntu2            Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2    2.26.3-0ubuntu1            SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libstartup-no 0.10-1build1               library for program launch feedbac
ii  libudev0      151-12                     udev library
ii  libxml2       2.7.6.dfsg-1ubuntu1        GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15ubuntu1   compression library - runtime

cheese recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cheese suggests:
ii  nautilus-sendto          2.28.4-0ubuntu1 integrates Evolution and Pidgin in

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