<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>How exactly would one manage localization with those AppData files? Also, does it concern only apps with a .desktop file or also DE utilities?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-05-07 13:41 GMT+01:00 Mark Trompell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@foresightlinux.org" target="_blank">mark@foresightlinux.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think that mail should better go to xfce-dev list.<br>
Adding you to CC too, as I don't know if you're subscribed there.<br>
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On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> My name is Richard Hughes, and I'm the main developer of GNOME<br>
> Software. I'm also one of the people behind the AppData and AppStream<br>
> initiatives, which are cross desktop, cross distro specifications for<br>
> metadata used by software installers. So far Fedora and Suse are<br>
> shipping AppStream metadata, and Arch and Debian have committed<br>
> resources too. 70% of all GNOME software packaged in Fedora ships an<br>
> AppData file already, and KDE has just announced that over 100 of the<br>
> KDE apps will get AppData and translations too automatically. This<br>
> leaves XFCE currently with 0%.<br>
><br>
> What AppStream requires is upstream metadata, things like search<br>
> keywords, a long description of the application and some screenshots<br>
> people can look at before deciding to install an application. There<br>
> are quite a few applications that I use as a GNOME developer from the<br>
> XFCE project, and it would be awesome to see the XFCE apps featured as<br>
> first-class citizens in GNOME Software on GNOME, and Apper on KDE. It<br>
> would also make implementing an XFCE software center much easier in<br>
> the future.<br>
><br>
> There is both a stick and a carrot for applications writing AppData<br>
> files. The carrot is they get an extra "star" in the software centers<br>
> for long descriptions, and an extra star for shipping screenshots,<br>
> which also means they feature higher up in the search results. The<br>
> stick is that from Fedora 22 onwards, we'll not be showing<br>
> applications *without* AppData files, which is thankfully a long time<br>
> from now.<br>
><br>
> So, if you're an upstream developer I would love you to read<br>
> <a href="http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/" target="_blank">http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/</a> and commit a file<br>
> upstream. If you're a contributor, please raise awareness of AppData<br>
> to your affiliated project and hopefully for 4.12 we can have lots of<br>
> high-quality XFCE applications visible to other desktops.<br>
><br>
> If you've got any questions, concerns or flames, please either reply<br>
> to this email or find me on twitter. I'm "hughsie" on GIMPNet and<br>
> Freenode.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Richard.<br>
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