On 27 June 2014 17:59, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Appdata Complaint #1: I've found it very difficult to take good > screenshots for my applications (the GNOME games). Most are intended to > run in small windows, and do not look good when resized to 16:9. Some > are unresizable. And Richard's screenshot window sizer extension is > broken for apps with header bars, so my screenshots aren't even at > appropriate sizes. I want to do better, but I'm not sure how. I think without making the details page in gnome-software resize and reflow (which we don't really want to do) we really have to ask for 16:9 screenshots. I'm sure we can work on the padding+resizing algorithm, as that does some pretty brain-dead things (like resizing a 760x431 image to 752x423) sometimes. > Appdata Complaint #2: There's no standard on when to use the > <project_name> tag. This is what we've been working on http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Application.html -- it's for version 0.7 of the spec, but applies equally well on older versions. > I use it for games with generic names, so that the > software center displays "GNOME Chess" rather than simply "Chess," but > other apps with generic names do not use it. You mean <name> then, not <project_name>. What I would do in this case is have "Chess" as the name in the .desktop file, and "GNOME Chess" in the AppData file. > Appdata Compliant #3: The <project_group> tag is also not used > consistently. I'm not sure how many GNOME apps actually declare > themselves to be in the GNOME project group. Right, the metadata extractor uses a few different heuristics[1] to try and set the <project_group> if not already set as this is very important so that we prioritize GNOME apps on GNOME, and KDE apps in KDE. We've actually added a <project_name> tag if you want to show something translatable in the software center, e.g. "The GNOME Chess Developers" rather than falling back to the untranslated <project_group>. Richard [1] https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib/blob/master/libappstream-builder/plugins/asb-plugin-hardcoded.c#L58 -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
