Hi. I'm digging the archives of the list and couldn't spot an obvious reference for the App-data.xml specs.
Anyone to provide a pointer to the "specification" for the format/content/semantics of these application metadata files ? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Vincent Untz <vu...@gnome.org> writes: > > Application metadata > ==================== > > openSUSE is now generating an appdata.xml file for its repo. You can > find an example here: > > http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/setup/descr/appdata.xml.gz > > It'd be great to have other distros generate this too so everyone can > play with the PackageKit backend in the software center (although Debian > and Ubuntu can still use the apt backend). > > That being said, in the short term, it can already be used on other > distro, or even better, we can use distromatch to transform it to work > for other distros. > > There's also a tarball with icons: > > http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/setup/descr/app-icons.tar.gz > It's not used by the software center yet; the way files are arranged > inside this tarball is pretty much still to be defined. > -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
