Refresh README

This brings a slight adaptation of the much nicer README prose from the
Mac OS Inform app: https://github.com/TobyLobster/Inform

README.md

@@ -1,27 +1,40 @@
-This Inform 7 IDE for the GNOME platform was created by Philip
-Chimento, based on a design by Graham Nelson and Andrew Hunter.
-See the file `AUTHORS.md` for more information on other
-contributors.
+## About Inform
 
-## To report bugs ##
+Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural
+language, a new medium of writing which came out of the "text adventure"
+games of the 1980s.
+It has been used by many leading writers of IF over the last twenty
+years, for projects ranging from historical reconstructions, through
+games, to art pieces, which have won numerous awards and competitions.
 
-Point your browser to [the official Inform 7 bug
-tracker](http://inform7.com/mantis).
+Inform's educational users span a uniquely wide age range, from primary
+schools to graduate computer science classes.
+Although Inform has also been used for commercial commissions, in
+architecture, in the games industry and in advertising (most recently
+for a major 2014 product launch), its primary aim is to help and to
+encourage individual writers to express themselves in a new medium.
+In a single evening with Inform, it's possible to write a vignette and
+publish it as an interactive website, playable on any browser.
 
-## Installation notes ##
+The Inform project was created by Graham Nelson in 1993 and first came
+to the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop in 1995, and is now available as
+an app.
+It combines the core Inform software with full documentation, including
+two books and nearly 500 fully working Examples.
+Connecting to the Inform website, it can automatically download and
+update extensions from a fully curated Public Library used by the
+world-wide Inform community.
+The app offers richly detailed indexing of projects and scales from tiny
+fictions like "Kate is a woman in the Research Lab" right up to enormous
+imaginary worlds whose source text runs to over 3 million words.
+Features for automated testing, packaging and releasing round out a
+fully-featured development environment for IF.
 
-* The Inform 7 IDE source code distribution does not include any binaries.
-  If you compile the Inform 7 IDE from source, you will need to download
-  the Linux command-line package appropriate for your processor from
-  <http://inform7.com> and put the `ni` file in the directory `src/ni`
-  before doing `./configure`.
-* If you are upgrading from version 5J39 or earlier, and you are having
-  problems with extensions, you may have to delete your `~/Inform`
-  directory and reinstall your extensions.
-
----
-
-Wherever a copyright is listed with a range of years (e.g. Copyright
-2006-2015), the copyright should be understood to cover all the years in
-that range, inclusive.
-(See <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html>)
+Inform is free, with no strings attached.
+What you make with it is yours, to publish on your website, sell, or
+give to your friends.
+There's a vibrant community of users who welcome newcomers (and the app
+will help you find a high-traffic forum for discussions).
+Lastly, Inform is continuously maintained and developed.
+All bug reports are examined and acted on (and the app will show you how
+to post them).

com.inform7.IDE.appdata.xml

@@ -9,13 +9,21 @@
   <description>
     <p>
       Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural
-      language.
+      language, a new medium of writing which came out of the "text adventure"
+      games of the 1980s.
+      It has been used by many leading writers of IF over the last twenty
+      years, for projects ranging from historical reconstructions, through
+      games, to art pieces, which have won numerous awards and competitions.
     </p>
     <p>
-      Interactive fiction is a literary form which involves programming a
-      computer so that it presents a reader with a text which can be explored.
-      Inform aims to make the burden of learning to program such texts as light
-      as possible.
+      Inform's educational users span a uniquely wide age range, from primary
+      schools to graduate computer science classes.
+      Although Inform has also been used for commercial commissions, in
+      architecture, in the games industry and in advertising (most recently
+      for a major 2014 product launch), its primary aim is to help and to
+      encourage individual writers to express themselves in a new medium.
+      In a single evening with Inform, it's possible to write a vignette and
+      publish it as an interactive website, playable on any browser.
     </p>
   </description>
   <launchable type="desktop-id">com.inform7.IDE.desktop</launchable>

debian/control

@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Provides: gnome-inform7
 Replaces: gnome-inform7
 Conflicts: gnome-inform7
-Description: Inform 7 interactive fiction programming language
- Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.
- It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed,
- guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of
- some of the world's best-known writers of IF.
+Description: The Inform 7 interactive fiction programming environment
+ Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural
+ language, a new medium of writing which came out of the "text adventure"
+ games of the 1980s.
+ It has been used by many leading writers of IF over the last twenty
+ years, for projects ranging from historical reconstructions, through
+ games, to art pieces, which have won numerous awards and competitions.

inform7-ide.opensuse.spec

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Name:           inform7-ide
 Version:        6M62
 Release:        0
 License:        GPL-3.0
-Summary:        Inform 7 interactive fiction programming language IDE
+Summary:        The Inform 7 interactive fiction programming environment
 Url:            http://inform7.com/
 Group:          Development/Languages/Other
 Source0:        https://github.com/ptomato/gnome-inform7/releases/download/6M62/Gnome_UI_Source_%{version}.tar.xz
@@ -51,10 +51,12 @@ BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %lang_package
 
 %description
-The Inform 7 IDE is a port of the Mac OS X and Windows versions of the
-integrated development environment for Inform 7. Inform 7 is a "natural"
-programming language for writing interactive fiction (also known as text
-adventures.).
+Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural
+language, a new medium of writing which came out of the "text adventure"
+games of the 1980s.
+It has been used by many leading writers of IF over the last twenty
+years, for projects ranging from historical reconstructions, through
+games, to art pieces, which have won numerous awards and competitions.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q

inform7-ide.spec

@@ -28,13 +28,15 @@ BuildRequires: gstreamer1-plugins-good
 BuildRequires: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
 BuildRequires: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-extras
 
-Summary: An IDE for the Inform 7 interactive fiction programming language
+Summary: The Inform 7 interactive fiction programming environment
 
 %description
-The Inform 7 IDE is a port of the Mac OS X and Windows versions of the
-integrated development environment for Inform 7. Inform 7 is a "natural"
-programming language for writing interactive fiction (also known as text
-adventures.)
+Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural
+language, a new medium of writing which came out of the "text adventure"
+games of the 1980s.
+It has been used by many leading writers of IF over the last twenty
+years, for projects ranging from historical reconstructions, through
+games, to art pieces, which have won numerous awards and competitions.
 
 # wat, definition of meson macro has builddir and srcdir swapped?!
 %global _vpath_srcdir %{name}-%{version}