On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 15:42 +0200, Karel Volný wrote:
> why do we penalize users by hiding contents from them when some
> upstream
> just doesn't care about this stuff? (see also comment 7 about the
> "unjust
> burden")?
To clarify, the goal is not to penalize users: quite the opposite. We
want
On 20 August 2014 14:42, Karel Volný wrote:
> 1) Why not to take the information from the .desktop file by default and use
> appdata.xml only if the author/packager wants to provide additional
> information that cannot be in the .desktop file?
That's what we do. Some data can't go in the .desktop
Hi.
I have a few concerns about AppData that don't seem to be covered
elsewhere, or at least I haven't found the answers
- not counting Richard's talk[1], as I gave up after five minutes, because
I just couldn't get used to the accent ... sorry, I'm not native speaker,
this was just too exhau
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 13:04:39 +, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > $ file screenshot-soundconverter.png
> > screenshot-soundconverter.png: PNG image data, 502 x 534, 8-bit/color RGBA,
> > non-interlaced
> > ScreenshotSizeWidthMin=624
> > ScreenshotSizeHeightMin=351
>
> 503 is smaller than 624 and the
On 8 November 2013 01:04, Rex Dieter wrote:
> which claims to be a (the?) tool to create some necessary database, how does
> this fit in (if at all)?
As I understand it, it's a libappstream-kind-thing that takes the xml
files as inputs and exposes a GObject API. gnome-software doesn't use
this ri
Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 6 November 2013 10:41, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> # rpm -qf /usr/share/app-info/xmls/fedora-20.xml.gz
>> gnome-software-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64
>> does.
>
> It's AppStream metadata.
Similarly, in order to make apper/kde work, it needs appstream,
https://bugzilla.redh
On 7 November 2013 13:36, Felix Kaechele wrote:
> A little off-topic but I was wondering:
> The spec states "Screenshots should be taken with US English as the display
> language.".
You can actually localize the screenshots if you want; I don't know of
any project that wants to do that yet.
> Ho
Richard Hughes wrote:
It's not mandatory, but highly reccomended. See
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/#screenshots for
details.
A little off-topic but I was wondering:
The spec states "Screenshots should be taken with US English as the
display language.".
However the spec also
On 7 November 2013 08:34, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Whould it not be a good idea to have it in a separate package, such kind of
> metadata should not be included with the application package IMHO
The plan is to ship this with the other metadata (and downloaded by
dnf/yum) long term, but at the momen
On 6 November 2013 23:12, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> $ file screenshot-soundconverter.png
> screenshot-soundconverter.png: PNG image data, 502 x 534, 8-bit/color RGBA,
> non-interlaced
> ScreenshotSizeWidthMin=624
> ScreenshotSizeHeightMin=351
503 is smaller than 624 and the screenshot is the wro
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 6 November 2013 10:41, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > # rpm -qf /usr/share/app-info/xmls/fedora-20.xml.gz
> > gnome-software-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64
> > does.
>
> It's AppStream metadata.
Whould it not be a good idea to have it in a sepa
On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 19:43:25 +, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > What is the recommended procedure to test new .appdata.xml files?
>
> Install them to /usr/share/appdata/ -- i've not tested this with
> Fedora 20, but I know it works if you're using the rawhide package.
Yes, with Rawhide it works and
On 6 November 2013 10:41, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> # rpm -qf /usr/share/app-info/xmls/fedora-20.xml.gz
> gnome-software-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64
> does.
It's AppStream metadata.
> For "Audacious" it specifies several details, such as an icon included
> in the gnome-software package and MIME typ
I'm trying to follow what's happening related to gnome-software and the
.appdata.xml files. There is a growing number of mails, but I cannot find
any message that points out what the file
# rpm -qf /usr/share/app-info/xmls/fedora-20.xml.gz
gnome-software-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64
does.
For "Audac
14 matches
Mail list logo
