diff --git a/app-editors/texworks/files/icon/texworks.png b/app-editors/texworks/files/icon/texworks.png
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diff --git a/app-editors/texworks/files/texworks.desktop b/app-editors/texworks/files/texworks.desktop
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-[Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
-Version=1.0
-Name=TeXworks
-Name[zh_CN]=TeXworks
-Name[zh_HK]=TeXworks
-Name[zh_TW]=TeXworks
-GenericName=TeX Editor
-GenericName[zh_CN]=TeX编辑器
-GenericName[zh_HK]=TeX編輯器
-GenericName[zh_TW]=TeX編輯器
-Comment=Edit TeX documents
-Comment[zh_CN]=编辑TeX文档
-Comment[zh_HK]=編輯TeX文檔
-Comment[zh_TW]=編輯TeX文檔
-Exec=texworks
-Icon=texworks
-Terminal=false
-Type=Application
-MimeType=text/x-tex;
-Categories=Development;TextEditor;
diff --git a/app-editors/texworks/metadata.xml b/app-editors/texworks/metadata.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-<herd>no-herd</herd>
-<longdescription>An environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documents, with a Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor, integrated PDF viewer, and a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users.</longdescription>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-editors/texworks/texworks-9999-r3.ebuild b/app-editors/texworks/texworks-9999-r3.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: $
-
-EAPI="3"
-
-inherit eutils subversion
-
-DESCRIPTION="An environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documentsfor casual and non-technical users."
-
-HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/texworks"
-
-ESVN_REPO_URI="http://texworks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/"
-ESVN_PATCHES=""
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS=""
-IUSE=""
-
-RDEPEND=">=dev-qt/qtcore-4.5.0
-	 >=app-text/poppler-0.10.6[qt4]
-	 >=app-text/hunspell-1.2.2"
-
-src_compile() {
-	qmake || die "TeXworks qmake failed!"
-	make || die "TeXworks make failed!"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	dobin texworks
-	insinto /usr/share/applications
-	doins "${FILESDIR}"/texworks.desktop || die "Install texwork.desktop failed!"
-	insinto /usr/share/pixmaps
-	doins "${FILESDIR}"/icon/texworks.png || die "Install texwork icon failed!"
-}