[devel] Another idea

Hi,

I played around a bit with making Kapture not show the Debian package
names in the list view, but instead the short description.  I have got
some code running, but it is unfortunately

1. Pretty slow ( the short and long descriptions are not part of the
   cache that apt maintains, so they have to be gotten from the
   packages files directly ).  Thus, the displaying of the entire list
   takes quite a while ( as in half a minute or so )
2. Pretty unusable.  The current Debian package Descriptions are not
   usable for this purpose.  They're meant to be shown alongside the
   package name, not instead of it.  I would personally like it
   otherwise, as the package names are obviously not interesting to
   the user, but it isn't the case.  Half of the package shortdesc's
   start with "A ...", the other with "The ...".

I was really just trying it out to see what it would give.  It's all
part of my long-term plan to make Kapture

1. Filter out a lot of packages by default
2. Sort the others as much as possible, preferably in a way that a
   user would normally look for them.
3. Show user-friendly names for them.  A user is not interested in a
   name like "gnome-themes", "GNOME 2 Desktop Themes" looks much more
   interesting.

Anyway, what do you think of this ?

cheers
domi