On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 18:06 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote: > Hello RPM Fusion developers. > > > I'm interested in adding AppData metadata for RPM Fusion. > > This will make RPMFusion apps look better in gnome-software (the > default app installer in Fedora) and greatly improve our user > experience. RPM Fusion apps will be easily discoverable by users and > will get more exposure. Users will no longer need to use a command > line to install VLC, for example. > > > The AppData metadata includes simple XML files with app descriptions, > and a tarball of app icons. > > They can be distributed in the rpmfusion-free-release and > rpmfusion-nonfree-release packages and will only add a couple more > megabytes. > > They can also be distributed in a different package (that would be > pulled by a comps group like RPM Fusion already does for certain > codecs), but the user experience will suffer because the users need to > run an update to get the metadata. > > > The generated metadata can also contain screenshots, but those are not > installed on the user's computer but rather pulled from a web server. > > > > I'm willing to help to get RPM Fusion to have application metadata, > but I'm unfamiliar with the rpmfusion infrastructure and workflows, so > I'll need help with someone who is familiar with rpmfusion more. > > > > So, what do you say? Do you want RPM Fusion to have AppData metadata?
+1. I think it's really frustrating for end users that they can't currently find RPMfusion applications through Software Center (which is the default and only preinstalled application for installing new software). ~nikos
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