[AppStream] Adding another component type

[Matthias Klumpp]

2016-09-02 18:44 GMT+02:00 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> On 2 September 2016 at 17:33, Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net> wrote:
>> A "driver" is a very specific thing, "hardware-support" is a bit more
>> generic and would also allow including various other tools you need to
>> install to make your hardware work (for example some kind of
>> hardware-specific control center app).
>
> I think a hardware-specific control center GUI app would still be
> desktop-application.

Yeah, this was a bad example - but I really can't think of a better
one, since desktop and console apps can both define modaliases
already, which kind of covers most cases.

>> So I tend to prefer hardware-support, although I would also be fine
>> with "driver".
>
> Okay, lets go with "driver" as it's shorter. It also means it works
> for drivers that don't explicitly refer to hardware, for instance the
> VMWare kernel modules. We've already got console-application for
> random CLI tools, and I'd rather the "type" remained as a *what
> explicit kind of component* rather than trying to umbrella it out to a
> collection of random things.

Agreed. Driver it is then - would be awesome if you could submit a
specification patch, otherwise I will write it when I have some spare
time here - should be a rather trivial change :-)

Cheers,
    Matthias