diff --git a/data/org.freedesktop.appstream.cli.metainfo.xml b/data/org.freedesktop.appstream.cli.metainfo.xml
index 6197caae..5f3607ef 100644
--- a/data/org.freedesktop.appstream.cli.metainfo.xml
+++ b/data/org.freedesktop.appstream.cli.metainfo.xml
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@
AppStream is a cross-distribution specification to provide metadata about software components.
- This tool allows reading, writing, validating and transforming AppStream XML or YAML metadata.
- It also allows accessing the system metadata pool to for example query for software providing a
- specific mimetype and installing it by its software component identifier.
+ This tool allows for reading, writing, validating and transformation of AppStream XML or YAML metadata.
+ It also gives access to the system metadata pool, for example to query for software that provides a
+ specific MIME-type, and installing it by its software component identifier.
- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
+ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-AppStream-ManualPages.html
Freedesktop
diff --git a/tools/appstream-cli.c b/tools/appstream-cli.c
index 809707a3..3b75cf71 100644
--- a/tools/appstream-cli.c
+++ b/tools/appstream-cli.c
@@ -54,17 +54,17 @@ const GOptionEntry data_collection_options[] = {
G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,
&optn_cachepath,
/* TRANSLATORS: ascli flag description for: --cachepath */
- N_("Manually set the location of the AppStream cache."), NULL },
+ N_("Manually selected location of AppStream cache."), NULL },
{ "datapath", 0, 0,
G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,
&optn_datapath,
/* TRANSLATORS: ascli flag description for: --datapath */
- N_("Manually set the location of AppStream metadata to scan."), NULL },
+ N_("Manually selected location of AppStream metadata to scan."), NULL },
{ "no-cache", 0, 0,
G_OPTION_ARG_NONE,
&optn_no_cache,
/* TRANSLATORS: ascli flag description for: --no-cache */
- N_("Do not use any caches when performing the request."),
+ N_("Make request without any caching."),
NULL },
{ NULL }
};
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ const GOptionEntry format_options[] = {
G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,
&optn_format,
/* TRANSLATORS: ascli flag description for: --format */
- N_("Default to the given metadata format (valid values are 'xml' and 'yaml')."), NULL },
+ N_("Default metadata format (valid values are 'xml' and 'yaml')."), NULL },
{ NULL }
};
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ as_client_run_new_template (char **argv, int argc)
G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,
&optn_desktop_file,
/* TRANSLATORS: ascli flag description for: --from-desktop (part of the new-template subcommand) */
- N_("Use the given .desktop file to fill in basic values in the metainfo file."), NULL },
+ N_("Use the given .desktop file to fill in the basic values of the metainfo file."), NULL },
{ NULL }
};
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ as_client_get_summary ()
g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "search TERM ", _("Search the component database."));
g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "get COMPONENT-ID", _("Get information about a component by its ID."));
g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "what-provides TYPE VALUE", _("Get components which provide the given item."));
- g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "TYPE ", _("An item type (e.g. lib, bin, python3, ...)"));
+ g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "TYPE ", _("An item type (e.g. lib, bin, python3, …)"));
g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "VALUE", _("Value of the item that should be found."));
g_string_append (string, "\n");
g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "dump COMPONENT-ID", _("Dump raw XML metadata for a component matching the ID."));
@@ -606,14 +606,14 @@ as_client_get_summary ()
g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "validate FILE ", _("Validate AppStream XML files for issues."));
g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "validate-tree DIRECTORY", _("Validate an installed file-tree of an application for valid metadata."));
g_string_append (string, "\n");
- g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "install COMPONENT-ID", _("Install software matching the component-id."));
- g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "remove COMPONENT-ID", _("Remove software matching the component-id."));
+ g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "install COMPONENT-ID", _("Install software matching the component-ID."));
+ g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "remove COMPONENT-ID", _("Remove software matching the component-ID."));
g_string_append (string, "\n");
g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "status ", _("Display status information about available AppStream metadata."));
g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "put FILE ", _("Install a metadata file into the right location."));
/* TRANSLATORS: "convert" command in ascli. "Collection XML" is a term describing a specific type of AppStream XML data. */
g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "convert FILE FILE", _("Convert collection XML to YAML or vice versa."));
- g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "new-template TYPE FILE", _("Create a template for a metainfo file (to be filed out by the upstream project)."));
+ g_string_append_printf (string, " %s - %s\n", "new-template TYPE FILE", _("Create a template for a metainfo file (to be filled out by the upstream project)."));
g_string_append (string, "\n");
g_string_append (string, _("You can find information about subcommand-specific options by passing \"--help\" to the subcommand."));
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ as_client_run (char **argv, int argc)
{ "no-color", (gchar) 0, 0,
G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &optn_no_color,
/* TRANSLATORS: ascli flag description for: --no-color */
- _("Don't show colored output."), NULL },
+ _("Don\'t show colored output."), NULL },
{ NULL }
};
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ as_client_run (char **argv, int argc)
return as_client_run_new_template (argv, argc);
} else {
/* TRANSLATORS: ascli has been run with unknown command. */
- ascli_print_stderr (_("Command '%s' is unknown."), command);
+ ascli_print_stderr (_("Unknown command '%s'."), command);
return 1;
}
}
diff --git a/tools/ascli-actions-mdata.c b/tools/ascli-actions-mdata.c
index e996893c..6fc824c5 100644
--- a/tools/ascli-actions-mdata.c
+++ b/tools/ascli-actions-mdata.c
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ ascli_what_provides (const gchar *cachepath, const gchar *kind_str, const gchar
g_autoptr(GError) error = NULL;
if (item == NULL) {
- g_printerr ("%s\n", _("No value for the item to search for defined."));
+ g_printerr ("%s\n", _("No item value to search for was defined."));
return 1;
}