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data: improve .desktop comment and appdata description

Will Thompson requested to merge wjt/improve-description into master

The description for the 'Comment' key in the Desktop Entry Specification says:

Tooltip for the entry, for example "View sites on the Internet". The value should not be redundant with the values of Name and GenericName.

The appstream specification has this to say about

:

A short summary of what this component does. If the component is "PackageKit", the summary could be "Provides a package-management abstraction layer".

"Scan Documents" seems redundant with "Document Scanner"; this string better describes what the application does.

We've overridden this in Endless for a while, along with some other overrides that I don't think are an improvement.

(I know that I have missed the string freeze for 3.36. :( )

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