Re: AppData proposal

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:

On 21 August 2013 15:00, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
>> There are cases where you'd want a different name in an software

>> center to the search term in the shell..

> Which case? I think any app that does that is broken.

TrackerGUI wants to be "Search" in the menu, but probably ought to be
"Tracker" in the software center. Similar for "Videos" -> "Totem".

> I also feel like the system of "describing this application" has to be done
> in a common format by one of other OS vendors. Have we looked into what
> Ubuntu, OS X, iOS, Android, and Windows do for this? Is it an XML-based
> format we can share?

I don't think it's worth the pain of interoperability just to share 2
or 3 fields, but I'm open for ideas if anyone has any more details of
something suitable.

I don't really care about interoperability. it's just that other people have probably solved all these problems before, and we should study their solutions.

 

Richard

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  Jasper