Re: GNOME Software Center and YOU!
Hi all, A progress update: lots of upstreams have already merged AppData files (50 and counting!) but we're still a long way from having all the core moduleset modules with AppData files. For some of the more important modules I've setup a google document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X4SBZM44ZIWM7s8_dgKw51aZfw0amp3fsqLVUPty5Gs/edit This is important for gnome software because even though the core modules are non-removable, they still show up in the update and detail view and it would be really good to match the mockups provided by Allan for 3.10. Once we've got some more contributions and the editing has settled down, I'll be pestering the upstream GNOME maintainers to ship the user-contributed extra data upstream for all distros to use. Feel free to add extra applications to the google document if your module is not listed there, or just create an AppData file yourself, commit it upstream and add a link on the document. Thanks again! Richard On 29 August 2013 21:07, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: Do you maintain an application that people use? Do you want people to be able to install it easily in the GNOME Software Center? If both of those are true, please read the newly finalised AppData specification [ http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ ] and ship one tiny extra file in your tarball for 3.10. People will love you for doing it, and I’ll really appreciate it. Maybe post 3.10 we can do a GNOME Goal for all the core GNOME modules, but of course this applies to GNOME, KDE, XFCE and random standalone apps. Any questions, send me email or grab me on IRC. Thanks! Richard ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: GNOME Software Center and YOU!
Hi,
I made a RELAX NG schema for this format. This can be used for example
to instantly validate your XML using nXML-mode in Emacs. I made this
for fun - I wanted to learn about RELAX NG when this came up - so I
have no idea if it is useful. Also, obviously it is based on my own
interpretations and guesses based on your example and spec. Maybe it
can be a good way to clarify what is intended to be allowed and not,
even if a strict all XML has to be validated! kind of thinking isn't
applied. Attaching file in RELAX NG compact notation.
(I just found now before sending this mail that there is already an
XML Schema for AppStream, so maybe that is more useful. Don't quite
understand what the relation between AppStream and AppData is.)
Regards,
Simon Kågedal Reimer
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you maintain an application that people use? Do you want people to
be able to install it easily in the GNOME Software Center?
If both of those are true, please read the newly finalised AppData
specification [ http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ ]
and ship one tiny extra file in your tarball for 3.10.
People will love you for doing it, and I’ll really appreciate it.
Maybe post 3.10 we can do a GNOME Goal for all the core GNOME modules,
but of course this applies to GNOME, KDE, XFCE and random standalone
apps.
Any questions, send me email or grab me on IRC. Thanks!
Richard
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# RELAX NG schema for http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/
#
# Written by Simon Kågedal Reimer 2013 skage...@gmail.com
# Released as Public Domain (CC0 1.0)
start = application
application =
element application {
id
licence
name?
summary?
description
screenshots?
url*
updatecontact?
}
id =
element id {
# Other types?
attribute type { string desktop },
text
}
# Other licences? Worth restricting this at all, or use free content?
licence = element licence {
string CC0
| string CC BY
| string CC BY-SA
}
name = element name { text }
summary = element summary { text }
description =
element description {
(p | ul | ol)*
}
p = element p { text }
ul = element ul { Entries }
ol = element ol { Entries }
Entries = element li { text }+
screenshots = element screenshots { screenshot+ }
screenshot = element screenshot
{
attribute type { string default }?,# Other types?
attribute width { xsd:integer },
attribute height { xsd:integer },
xsd:anyURI
}
url = element url
{
attribute type { string homepage }?, # Other types?
xsd:anyURI
}
updatecontact = element updatecontact { text }
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Re: GNOME Software Center and YOU!
On 30 August 2013 15:08, Simon Kågedal Reimer skage...@gmail.com wrote: I made a RELAX NG schema for this format. Awesome, thanks. Any chance you could write a patch for the spec document? It's hosted here: https://github.com/hughsie/appdata-website -- probably just adding the file and adding an entry in the FAQ section is enough. Don't quite understand what the relation between AppStream and AppData is.) My AppStream compose tools do something like this: for each package in distro: extract .desktop files extract .appdata.xml files write appstream.xml file xmlmerge all the appstream.xml's files together into a master appstream.xml and optionially gzip it So really, the data in the AppData is used to make the AppStream data more complete. AppData is just another data provider just like the .desktop file. Richard. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
GNOME Software Center and YOU!
Do you maintain an application that people use? Do you want people to be able to install it easily in the GNOME Software Center? If both of those are true, please read the newly finalised AppData specification [ http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ ] and ship one tiny extra file in your tarball for 3.10. People will love you for doing it, and I’ll really appreciate it. Maybe post 3.10 we can do a GNOME Goal for all the core GNOME modules, but of course this applies to GNOME, KDE, XFCE and random standalone apps. Any questions, send me email or grab me on IRC. Thanks! Richard ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
