Review Request 118676: AppData for KAlgebra

[Andreas Cord-Landwehr]

> On June 12, 2014, 10:01 a.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> > Thanks for working on it!
> > 
> > Do you think we can use this data for the website? Or the other way around?
> > Don't we need to modify Messages.sh for it?
> > 
> > Cheers!
> 
> Yuri Chornoivan wrote:
>     These data can be used for software centers only (currently for GNOME and Apper).
>     
>     No need to modify anything, scripty is smart enough to do everything on its own. ;)
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     Why only software centers?
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> Yuri Chornoivan wrote:
>     Because they are meant to be used like this:
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>     http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/
>     
>     What can be the other usage of:
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>     1. Short description (not more than 100 words by specification).
>     2. Screenshot.
>     3. And all this in a local database (not implemented yet) installed with distribution.
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>     ?
> 
> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     I consider the fact that it's in a local database an implementation detail. I would prefer not to have the same description written in different places, they would get out of sync and that's not good.

I am pretty confident that we will be able to use the descriptions (when they are in place for all edu apps) to have a better way to auto-generate the meta files for the edu website.


- Andreas


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On June 11, 2014, 7:29 p.m., Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote:
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> (Updated June 11, 2014, 7:29 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Edu and Aleix Pol Gonzalez.
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> Repository: kalgebra
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> Description
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> Add AppStream meta data for this project: http://techbase.kde.org/MetaInfo
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt ad68e08 
>   kalgebra.appdata.xml PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118676/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas Cord-Landwehr
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