Reviving AppStream and current status

[Olivier Berger]

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 <vuntz at gnome.org> writes:

>
> Application metadata
> ====================
>
> openSUSE is now generating an appdata.xml file for its repo. You can
> find an example here:
>   http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/setup/descr/appdata.xml.gz
>
> 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:
>   http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/setup/descr/app-icons.tar.gz
> It's not used by the software center yet; the way files are arranged
> inside this tarball is pretty much still to be defined.
>

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