Bug#623219: vte: Dada in long descriptions

[Teemu Ikonen]

Package: vte
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

The long descriptions of the binary packages built from vte read:

 The VTE library inserts terminal capability strings into a trie, and then
 uses it to determine if data received from a pseudo-terminal is a control
 sequence or just random data. The sample program "interpret" illustrates
 more or less what the widget sees after it filters incoming data.

I fail to see how this implementation detail illustrates the purpose of
the VTE library which, as I see it, is to provide a terminal widget for
GTK applications needing it. Why not replace the above with something
like this, slightly paraphrasing the upstream development docs:

 The VTE library provides a terminal emulator widget VteTerminal for
 applications using the GTK+ 2.0 toolkit. It also provides the VtePTY
 object containing functions for starting a new process on a new
 pseudo-terminal and for manipulating pseudo-terminals.

Best,

Teemu