#3 Please consider including an appdata file for Gaussum

[Alexander Ploumistos]

Hello,

KDE and GNOME have embraced the AppStream proposal for distro- and desktop-agnostic software centers, requiring packages to ship an appdata.xml file, which is to be installed in /usr/share/appdata/ . The file contains a brief description of the package, links to 16:9 screenshots and website and contact info. You can read more about the specifications here:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/
or here:
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html

There is also a pending proposal for the next versions of Fedora to not include in the software centers packages without appdata (though a user could install them from the terminal with dnf or yum). Regardless, the new software centers present a great opportunity for developers to showcase their applications and of course for the users, to discover said applications. If you do not have enough time, I could help you with the file and probably with the screenshots.

Please let me know of your decision, so that I may update the list of applications in Fedora.

Best regards
Alex

[Anonymous]

Hi Alex. Given that this is the second or third time I've been prodded, I'll sort it out by the end of the week. I'll update here when I've something.

• Noel