[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#645248: Please reconsider package description

[Martin Eberhard Schauer]

Package: lxde-common
Version: 0.5.5-1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-l10n-english at lists.debian.org

Dear Maintainers,
working on the German translation of the package description (1) I 
encountered an
inconsistent spelling of lxde and other issues with the potential of 
improvement.

 > Description: Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment configuration data
 >  LXDE (the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a project aimed
 >  to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast.

It is quite common to separate the name of the software resulting in severa
l packages from the package's function (dev, doc and the like) by means of
  a dash or brackets. And paragraph one could be shortened:

Description: Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) - configuration data
  The LXDE project aims to provide a lightweight and fast desktop 
environment.

 > It's not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim
 > enough, and keep the resource usage low.  Different from other desktop
 > environments, lxde don't tightly integrate every component. Instead,
 > lxde tried to make all components independent, and each of them can be
 > used independently with fewer dependencies.

The low utilization of resources is already mentioned (lightweight). And
perhaps I was mentally absent in my English lessons - the verb forms don't
fit together (at least for me).

  It's designed to keep the resource usage low, to be usable and slim.
  Different from other desktop environments, LXDE does not tightly
  integrate every component. Instead, all components are independent,
  and each of them can be used on it's own with only a few dependencies.

 > Features:
 >  - Lightweight, runs with reasonable memory usage
 >  - Fast, rund well even on older machines produced in 1999
 >  - Good-looking, GTK+ 2 internationalized user interface
 >  - Easy-to-use, the user interface is simple, but usable enough
 >  - Desktop independent (suprise! Every component can be used without 
LXDE)
 >  - Standard compliant, follows the specs on freedesktop.org

I don't understand the capitals at the beginning of each item. Typos and
new wording included, I propose

Features:
  - lightweight, runs with reasonable memory usage
  - fast, runs well even on older machines produced in 1999
  - good-looking, internationalized user interface GTK+ 2
  - simple, easy-to-use user interface offering sufficient
    functionality, but usable enough
  - desktop independent (Surprise! Every component can be used
    without LXDE)
  - standards compliant, follows the freedesktop.org specifications

To summarize:

Description: Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) - configuration data
  The LXDE project aims to provide a lightweight and fast desktop 
environment.
.
  It's designed to keep the resource usage low, to be usable and slim.
  Different from other desktop environments, LXDE does not tightly
  integrate every component. Instead, all components are independent,
  and each of them can be used on it's own with only a few dependencies.
.
  Features:
   - lightweight, runs with reasonable memory usage
   - fast, runs well even on older machines produced in 1999
   - good-looking, internationalized user interface GTK+ 2
   - simple, easy-to-use user interface offering sufficient
     functionality, but usable enough
   - desktop independent (Surprise! Every component can be used
     without LXDE)
   - standards compliant, follows the freedesktop.org specifications

Kind regards,
    Martin


1: http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=85561