AppStream Donation Capabilities?

[Matthias Klumpp]

2014-02-20 17:28 GMT+01:00 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> On 20 February 2014 14:58, Jason Harrer <jazzyeagle79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The general premise is this:  There should be a way for users to donate to a
>> project/developer when they go to install the software.
>
> Yes, that's the idea. We were thinking about having a <url
> type="donation">http://foo.com</url> in the AppData specification,
> although Allan (cc'd) was worried about how to put this in the UI, and
> how the UX should be. Flattr seems like the obvious choice, although
> it's not exactly free software and there are a ton of legal issues
> too.
In order to get that into the UI, I thought of something similar:
<donation_url vendor="flattr">http:/flattr.com/blah</donation_url>
vendors can be Flattr, PayPal, ... and user interfaces could indicate
the donation method in the application description.
Using the url property was my first though as well, but it would
overload the url field with a "vendor" property, which is only useful
in combination with type="donation", that's why I thought about adding
a new tag.
I didn't talk with Richard about it yet to get something into the
official specs - some more AppStream work from my side is planned this
weekend.
Cheers,
   Matthias

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