D10920: Install app metadata for plasmoidviewer and plasmaengineexplorer

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau noreply at phabricator.kde.org
Wed Feb 28 20:55:39 UTC 2018


kossebau added a comment.


  In D10920#215866 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D10920#215866>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > Appending `.desktop` is unnecessary and a violation of the AppStream spec. See https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#sect-Metadata-GenericComponent
  >
  > > The ID must follow a reverse-DNS scheme, consisting of {tld}.{vendor}.{product}, for example `org.kde.Gwenview` or `com.hugski.ColorHug2`. Ownership of {vendor}.{tld} in the domain name system guarantees uniqueness of IDs.
  
  
  Can you help me to see where the violation of the spec is? Appending a suffix to the app name should not break anything by itself, no?
  
  AFAIK the desktop is used to denote that this is the app variant as useful for desktop workspaces, as opposed to e.g. mobile.

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  R118 Plasma SDK

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/D10920

To: kossebau, sebas, mart, broulik, ngraham
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