On 2 April 2016 at 15:39, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> wrote: > On Freitag, 1. April 2016 10:37:46 CEST Richard Hughes wrote: >> On 31 March 2016 at 12:43, Luigi Toscano <luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it> wrote: >> > AppStream metadata are already decentralized, and you don't want a >> > sysadmin >> > ticket for each change to one of them. Let's have them in the hands of >> > each >> > project manager. So I strongly disagree with moving from the current >> > status. >> Agreed. You also want different screenshots and descriptions for >> different branches of each project. Centralised storage of this was a >> complete non-goal when designing AppStream for distros. If you want to >> standardize where each appdata file is stored in the project (in >> GNOME, it's sometimes ".", "data", "data/appdata" or "src") that might >> be a worthy but difficult goal, but saying you can repopulate a >> standards compliant AppData file from JSON and Markdown doesn't sound >> very plausible at all. >> >> Also, like it or not, people are browsing and installing software >> using software centers. I don't think people go looking at >> https://www.kde.org/applications/ when trying to install a new game. >> Quite literally, there is no "Install" button to be found on that >> website. > > Actually, the "install button" is in the works, because AppStream links make > that possible. This is actually important to allow people to directly link to > an application when they are for example recommending it to a friend. > > Still, of course, software center applications will be the most common way to > install applications. > > We just have to make sure that we have both high-quality web and software > center presentation.
While we're at it, could the VDG cook up some templates we could use? This will most probably be done by a GSoC student (whom I'll be mentoring), so the work starts sometime in the middle of June. -- Boudhayan _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community