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Feature #1400

quassel should ship an appdata file for Linux packaging

Added by TC01 over 8 years ago. Updated about 8 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
TC01
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
03/14/2016
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
OS:
Linux

Description

See here: https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/

This is the specification that various package management GUIs such as Gnome Software (the default graphical software installer on Fedora Workstation, notably) use to decide if they should show an application or not. It lets people browsing for software discover quassel and see screenshots and a description and so on. If there's no appdata file, Gnome Software (at least) chooses not to display an application.

I intend to fix this in the Fedora package, but it's something quassel upstream should perhaps consider shipping, since I suspect more than just Fedora would like to include this file.

Associated revisions

Revision 91cdf2d7 (diff)
Added by TC01 about 8 years ago

Add AppData metadata for quassel, quasselclient.

The freedesktop.org AppData standard defines metadata for GUI
applications that wish to show up in various graphical software
centers, such as GNOME Software. See the specification for
more details: https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/

Applications without metadata will not show up in GNOME Software,
and possibly other graphical package managers. As GNOME Software
is the recommended way on Fedora Workstation to install software,
this means that without these files users won't be able to find
quassel or quasselclient.

Fixes #1400. Resolves GH-216.

Revision e678718e (diff)
Added by TC01 over 6 years ago

Add AppData metadata for quassel, quasselclient.

The freedesktop.org AppData standard defines metadata for GUI
applications that wish to show up in various graphical software
centers, such as GNOME Software. See the specification for
more details: https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/

Applications without metadata will not show up in GNOME Software,
and possibly other graphical package managers. As GNOME Software
is the recommended way on Fedora Workstation to install software,
this means that without these files users won't be able to find
quassel or quasselclient.

Fixes #1400. Resolves GH-216.

(cherry picked from commit 91cdf2d76f6b57de2860f3d632cd2a40c17fb0b4)

History

#1 Updated by TC01 about 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

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