AppStream Donation Capabilities?

[Jason Harrer]

If it helps any, the way i was going to go about it was by looking at what
is currently out on developers' websites to see how they get the icons on
their pages.  Flattr & PayPal were the only ones I looked at thus far, but
they both have ways to load the icons from their respective websites (not
the developers') and provide to the developers that use their sites the JS
code needed for their website to make the buttons work.  All I was
intending to do was to load the icon from their website directly into my
application (so I didn't officially have their icon in my source at all)
and run the script as they had requested.  This would create the UI I
needed.  My first goal was to just make a hyperlink to the webpage where
they could donate on the web page with eventual update to connect the UI to
code utilizing the donation sites' API (should the site have an API I could
link up with) to handle all the donation through the software without the
user having to go through another screen.

It seems like you're all already well down this path, and I haven't
honestly had a chance to go through your code yet, so I'm not sure if I'd
be more of a help or hindrance if I were to attempt to help this code
this.  I will say, though, that I really appreciate you working on this
already, and if you need any help, be it coding or general advice, let me
know, and I'll do what I can to help!!

- Jason


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net>wrote:

> 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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