Please create an AppData file for Gnome Gmail

[Richard Hughes]

Please consider writing and installing an AppData file with the application description and some screenshots, else Gnome Gmail looks really bad in the GNOME and KDE Software Centers. We'd love to showcase more applications, but without the extra data file we can't. See http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ for details; thanks!

Richard

[Dave Steele]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Richard Hughes hughsie@users.sf.net
wrote:

Please consider writing and installing an AppData file with the
application
description and some screenshots, else Gnome Gmail looks really bad in the
GNOME and KDE Software Centers. We'd love to showcase more applications,
but
without the extra data file we can't. See
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ for details; thanks!

Richard

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I had a number of questions after reading this, the answers to which you
may want to add to your 'details' link for future notices.

How does installing another package metadata file along with the package
help raise that package's visibility to those who haven't installed it,
given there is to be no central service?

What agreements do you have with distribution-specific or platform-specific
software centers to use this resource? Or any other services?

We'd love to showcase more applications, but without the extra data file
we can't
Who is 'we', and what is the mechanism for this showcasing?

The information you referenced falls short of telling me why I should care
about this.

A fair amount of searching answered some of this. It seems that this is
currently mostly supporting Fedora and Ubuntu. I'm mostly on Debian now.
Any activity there?