Inkscape and AppData
Hi all,
I would like Inkscape to start shipping an AppData file for the GNOME and KDE software centers. At the moment it's invisible to AppStream-enabled software managers as there is no metadata file to read. I've uploaded a file here http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/inkscape.appdata.xml which needs to be committed and then installed into the $prefix/share/appdata directory at install time; there's no need to conditionalize this as it's just ignored by any distro without an app installer. If you want to mark it translatable that would be great too, although I'm not familiar with what tools inkscape uses (intltool?) and I'm 100% okay if you want to change the description or add/change any extra screenshots. I'd like to make Inkscape a featured application in GNOME Software for 3.20 and an upstream AppData file is a prerequisite to that.
I first wrote a mail to this mailing list in 2013 when we started the AppStream project, but since that time over 1200 other applications have started shipping metadata files for the software center. This very much makes Inkscape the odd-one-out now, and now we're building nightly snapshots of inkscape as part of the xdg-app nightly repo we can't even include an additional file in the srpm like so many distros are doing. I think the time has come to move it upstream :)
There's more details about AppData here http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ but I'm happy to answer questions or comments here too. Thanks!
Richard
Dear Richard,
It might be worth targeting a specific developer; the inkscape project is more like a bar with characters all murmuring into their beer about the need for more refactoring. Oh and the bar isn't staffed, it's BYOB.
Kicking open the door and projecting about the need to go on a quest /might work/, but then again... ;-)
Having said that, I'm going to point at mathog, jabiertxof and Alex Valavanis. I'd do it myself but I'm Chaotic Good and the build system is evil. We should do it, I think one of your guys can help. :-D oh go on, please.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 13:30 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
Hi all,
I would like Inkscape to start shipping an AppData file for the GNOME and KDE software centers. At the moment it's invisible to AppStream-enabled software managers as there is no metadata file to read. I've uploaded a file here http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/inkscape.appdata.xml which needs to be committed and then installed into the $prefix/share/appdata directory at install time; there's no need to conditionalize this as it's just ignored by any distro without an app installer. If you want to mark it translatable that would be great too, although I'm not familiar with what tools inkscape uses (intltool?) and I'm 100% okay if you want to change the description or add/change any extra screenshots. I'd like to make Inkscape a featured application in GNOME Software for 3.20 and an upstream AppData file is a prerequisite to that.
I first wrote a mail to this mailing list in 2013 when we started the AppStream project, but since that time over 1200 other applications have started shipping metadata files for the software center. This very much makes Inkscape the odd-one-out now, and now we're building nightly snapshots of inkscape as part of the xdg-app nightly repo we can't even include an additional file in the srpm like so many distros are doing. I think the time has come to move it upstream :)
There's more details about AppData here http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ but I'm happy to answer questions or comments here too. Thanks!
Richard
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On 28 January 2016 at 16:39, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
Having said that, I'm going to point at mathog, jabiertxof and Alex Valavanis. I'd do it myself but I'm Chaotic Good and the build system is evil.
I've attached a git formatted patch which includes the translation support. I don't know bzr, but it will apply cleanly using patch -p1. Let me know if there's anything else I need to do. Thanks.
Richard
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 21:54 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
I've attached a git formatted patch which includes the translation support. I don't know bzr, but it will apply cleanly using patch -p1. Let me know if there's anything else I need to do. Thanks.
Thanks Richard, I've merged it in for you. Thank you so much for pushing this forward and getting it done.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Jan 28, 2016 08:40, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
Dear Richard,
It might be worth targeting a specific developer; the inkscape project is more like a bar with characters all murmuring into their beer about the need for more refactoring. Oh and the bar isn't staffed, it's BYOB.
This is a very accurate description.
Best regards, Krzysztof
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