On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:39:13 +0100 Matthias Klumpp <m...@debian.org> wrote: > Am So., 19. Jan. 2020 um 23:03 Uhr schrieb Matthias Klumpp <m...@debian.org>: > > > > Am Mo., 4. Nov. 2019 um 16:33 Uhr schrieb Gerhard A. Dittes <g-...@web.de>: > > > > > > Package: appstream > > > Version: 0.12.9-1 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > using discover (as frontend/client), the images which are finally shown > > > when you click on the thumbnails, are quite often of pretty bad quality > > > (although the actual (unmodified) images look quite fine). > > > > > > I've already reported this problem to upstream ( > > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413629 ), but it turns out to be > > > rather a "distribution specific" problem. > > > > > > Please see the attached screenshots. I'm able to reproduce this for both > > > Debian buster and testing. Just use Discover and search eg. for "blender". > > > > Thank you for reporting this issue! Unfortunately there is nothing we > > can do about this. AppStream is working correctly here, but the > > applications in question simply do not provide screenshots in a bigger > > resolution, so only the smallest thumbnail size is available. Discover > > could switch to displaying the raw image in these cases though, that > > would help a bit. That is an issue in Discover though, not in the > > AppStream tooling itself. > > > > You can see what sizes are available in the raw metadata at > > https://appstream.debian.org/bullseye/main/metainfo/kdeconnect.html > > (that will also tell you where screenshots are located, in this case > > here: > > https://appstream.debian.org/media/pool/org/kde/kdeconnect.kcm.desktop/6B87D0FD2E3FC04EA794BAEA41C56D65/screenshots/ > > ) > > FWIW, I talked to the Discover maintainers and this issue is actually > fixed now in Plasma Discover >= 5.18 :-) > Tanks for reporting it! > > Cheers, > Matthias
Hi, these are really good news! Even though it's only a minor change, imho it's a great step towards (a good) "user experience". Thanks & regards, Gerhard
