I've submitted a review for a plasma-desktop metadata file. https://phabricator.kde.org/D1844 But I was surprised to see the metadata format doesn't support many types. Shouldn't something like Plasma widgets be a good target for appstream metadata?
Jonathan On 7 April 2016 at 16:35, Matthias Klumpp <matth...@tenstral.net> wrote: > 2016-04-07 15:08 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org>: >> Martin's thread on metadata got me wondering about if we should have >> appstream files in Plasma. It would be nice to have plasma-desktop in >> software installers for people who run another desktop and want to >> install it. There's also applications like system settings (which has >> dozens of plugins), khotkeys and kinfocenter which may or may not be >> useful for appstream. > > I'm at the GNOME Software hackfest right now (working mainly on > AppStream), and we briefly discussed this: Generally, adding desktops > to the SC isn't a great idea, because it's not really an application, > but a system component - being able to run more desktops than one is > more useful for distro developers and experienced users, and will be > very confusing for regular users, which are the target audience of > software centers. > > However, adding an AppStream metainfo file would be something I would > very much support! AppStream supports "generic components", so you > could just drop a file > "org.kde.plasma-desktop.metainfo.xml" containing > <component> > <name>Plasma Desktop</name> > <summary>....</summary> > ... (etc) > > which describes the Plasma Desktop. Software centers like Discover or > GNOME Software will not show that, but users can find it with > appstreamcli and would be able to install it using "appstreamcli > install org.kde.plasma-desktop". > > So: More metadata please! (But ideally no desktops in the SC) > > Cheers, > Matthias > > -- > Debian Developer | Freedesktop-Developer > I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/ _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
