Publish Okular for Windows using new script

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Feb 7 23:09:36 GMT 2023


El dilluns, 6 de febrer de 2023, a les 17:32:58 (CET), Ingo Klöcker va 
escriure:
> On Donnerstag, 2. Februar 2023 23:31:29 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El dimarts, 31 de gener de 2023, a les 16:23:43 (CET), Ingo Klöcker va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > * There are 5 screenshots in Microsoft Store which are different from
> > > the
> > > screenshots referenced in the AppStream data. On one hand this allows
> > > using
> > > Windows-specific screenshots for the Microsoft Store. On the other hand
> > > you
> > > miss the opportunity for translated captions which are provided by the
> > > AppStream data. Maybe consider using the same screenshots because I
> > > guess
> > > that the look of Okular on Windows shouldn't be that different than the
> > > one
> > > on Linux except for different windows decorations.
> > 
> > I think this is a big deal for Windows users, they are already scared
> > enough installing some weird app, worst if we show them the wrong window
> > decoration in the screenshots.
> > 
> > Maybe we can use custom tags for the windows screenshots?
> > 
> > https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/AppStream#KDE_customs_tags
> 
> Custom tags seem to be limited to key-value pairs. 

:/

> An alternative would be
> to add the Windows screenshots to the screenshots tag, but without
> type="default" (or any other type) and instead with platform="windows"
> (Harald opened an issue for this some time ago:
> https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/390).
> 
> We will have to change the generator for apps.kde.org to skip screenshots
> without default type if we don't want to see Windows screenshots on
> apps.kde.org.

But that will just work for apps.kde.org there's "infinite" other consumers of 
appstream files out there (discover, flathub, gnome software), we can't "fix" 
those

> 
> BTW, I don't see the Windows screenshots in
> https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/okular/
> Where are they "hidden"?

I guess in the Windows Store :D

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Regards,
> Ingo






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