Adopting AppData in KDE?

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Sat Nov 2 19:48:01 GMT 2013


On 2 November 2013 19:33, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> What's the point in having an installer that hides more than half of the apps
> in the world that don't ship a file that is not a standard and doesn't seem to
> me it was developed as a standard? How is this useful to the end user?

We want to showcase high quality applications with active upstream
maintainers. There's no point us showing 5000 application where half
don't work or are abandonware. Also, I'm hoping AppData does become a
standard. It's already used by over 200 projects.

Richard




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