Hi! I think you are looking for this: <a href="http://gitorious.org/appstream/appstream-core/blobs/master/docs/appdata.xsd">http://gitorious.org/appstream/appstream-core/blobs/master/docs/appdata.xsd</a> Cheers, Matthias <div class="gmail_quote">Am 17.11.2012 22:55 schrieb "Olivier Berger" <<a href="mailto:olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu">olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi. I'm digging the archives of the list and couldn't spot an obvious reference for the App-data.xml specs. Anyone to provide a pointer to the "specification" for the format/content/semantics of these application metadata files ? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Vincent Untz <<a href="mailto:vuntz@gnome.org">vuntz@gnome.org</a>> writes: > > Application metadata > ==================== > > openSUSE is now generating an appdata.xml file for its repo. You can > find an example here: > <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/setup/descr/appdata.xml.gz" target="_blank">http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/setup/descr/appdata.xml.gz</a> > > It'd be great to have other distros generate this too so everyone can > play with the PackageKit backend in the software center (although Debian > and Ubuntu can still use the apt backend). > > That being said, in the short term, it can already be used on other > distro, or even better, we can use distromatch to transform it to work > for other distros. > > There's also a tarball with icons: > <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/setup/descr/app-icons.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/setup/descr/app-icons.tar.gz</a> > It's not used by the software center yet; the way files are arranged > inside this tarball is pretty much still to be defined. > -- Olivier BERGER <a href="http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/" target="_blank">http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/</a> - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list <a href="mailto:Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org">Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions</a> </blockquote></div>