Adopting AppData in KDE?

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 00:04:47 Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> Plasmoids might make sense to be only displayed on KDE
...
> Extensions on KDE). If these things would be treated as applications

This is honestly an area where I don’t see much point in pushing AppStream 
further.

As a front-end for the package manager and giving some way to allow desktops 
to provide a desktop-specific UI, I think AppStream makes loads of sense.

For everything else, it’s going to be “round pegs, square holes”. The filtering 
of items is done in the wrong place, the ability to handle things that aren’t  
applications is limited, etc.

To me, AppStream is something to extend apper and such tools with. If we want 
a way to distribute general content in a context relevant manner, Bodega is 
actually designed for this.

I understand the AppStream devels are probably quite excited about what 
they’ve got going on (I would be, too, if I were them), but KDE needs to make 
intelligent choices as to what makes sense for our use cases, and AppStream is 
not that thing.

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Aaron J. Seigo