[AppStream] [fdo] Wikidata IDs in appdata.xml

Loic Dachary loic at dachary.org
Fri Sep 9 12:28:15 UTC 2016


Hi Richard,

Thanks for taking time to look into this :-)

On 08/09/2016 16:36, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 8 September 2016 at 09:13, Loic Dachary <loic at dachary.org> wrote:
>> The user (human or program) of https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/blob/gimp-2-8/desktop/gimp.appdata.xml.in has no information about the license.
> 
> I think that's a bad example; the gimp file is very incomplete.

Yes, as you noted it's an old one (the one I have installed on my Ubuntu 16.04)

> Perhaps https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/tree/data/appdata/org.gnome.Software.appdata.xml.in
> is a better example?

Ok, I'll look for an example that is current instead of a semi-theoritical example.

>> The appdata.xml maintainer can harvest the descriptions translated into various languages from wikidata.
> 
> I think the other way round might be more productive. GNOME Builder
> already has 14 translations in the stable AppStream file.

Yes it could go both ways.

Cheers

-- 
Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre


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