From: Ben Hutchings Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:37:05 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Updated package descriptions. X-Git-Tag: 20080207-1 X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=616394c4c46969bb2ffd3c90f7737966c0b71c2c;p=ion3.git Updated package descriptions. --- diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 3950d9b..581cc3f 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -15,19 +15,17 @@ Conflicts: particleman Provides: x-window-manager, ion3-api-${Ion:ApiVersion} Replaces: particleman Homepage: http://iki.fi/tuomov/ion/ -Description: keyboard-friendly window manager with tiled windows - Ion, based on PWM, is an unusual window manager with no overlapping - windows. Windows are placed in tabbed frames which may be arbitrarily - split to create additional frames, making keyboard navigation much - easier. Flexible configuration is possible thanks to Lua, which is - used as the configuration language. +Description: tiling tabbed window manager designed for keyboard users + Ion divides the screen into tiles and places windows in these tiles + by default. Each tile has a set of tabs for the windows within it. + It also allows windows to be made 'floating' and placed freely. Ion + can be controlled through the keyboard alone or together with a mouse. . - There is also support for so-called 'floating workspaces' where - windows are managed the conventional way, so that you can still run - applications which do not fit very well into Ion's window management - approach. A pwm3 binary is included which starts Ion with floating - workspaces as the default, thus replacing the now obsolete PWM window - manager. + Ion can be configured and extended using the Lua language. It also + supports extension modules written in C. + . + This package provides Ion version 3. Ion version 2 is available in + the ion2 package. Package: ion3-dev Section: non-free/devel @@ -36,6 +34,6 @@ Architecture: all Depends: libx11-dev, libsm-dev, lua5.1, gcc (>> 3) Conflicts: particleman-dev Replaces: particleman-dev -Description: ion3 development files +Description: Ion3 development files This package contains the files necessary for building extension - modules to the Ion window manager. + modules to the Ion window manager, version 3.