diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc
index cbdda5f82a..e87de4b379 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Qt is a versatile cross-platform application framework -- this is the embedded version."
+SUMMARY = "Cross-platform UI toolkit and application framework (framebuffer version)"
+DESCRIPTION = "Qt is a versatile cross-platform application framework -- this is the embedded (framebuffer) version."
 SECTION = "libs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qt-project.org/"
 DEPENDS += "directfb tslib"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
index 369b3d5ae0..73ed2bcbd9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 require qt4.inc
 
+SUMMARY = "Cross-platform UI toolkit and application framework (X11 version)"
 DESCRIPTION = "Qt is a versatile cross-platform application framework -- this is the X11 version."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qt-project.org/"
 SECTION = "x11/libs"