Adopting AppData in KDE?

[Sven Brauch]

On Sunday 03 November 2013 12:49:52 henry miller wrote:
> Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Please don't portray me as a modern-day highwayman as I'm really just
> >trying to build an awesome application installer for GNOME. It's two
> >orders of magnitude harder to actually write a shared standard and ask
> >other desktops to adopt it (making changes as required) rather than a
> >quick hack that just works with one desktop on one distribution.
> 
> Let me rewritte the above into a FAQ format:
> Q: Why does KDE not ship appdata files
> A: the maintainers of appdata have admited they have no interest in
> standards, thus KDE has no formal ability to get things we need changed. 
> In addition while appdata claims to be distribution/gnome, it really is a
> Fedora thing and few other distribution packages use it, thus violating
> KDEs no patches for on distribution only.

Let's not make a fight of this. I think the point that some people (including 
me) didn't find the strategy for creating a standard quite optimal was made, 
and we should drop it now and focus on discussing the adoption of the 
specification.

Sven