Hi, As the subject suggests, Fedora 22 will require applications to have a long description to be shown in the software center. We're introducing this change so that we can show a powerful application full of high-quality content, rather than what we have now which is a equal mixture of awesome and sadness. If you're interested you can see the number of applications with appdata without installing gnome-software from rawhide here: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/screenshots/f21/status.html (warning; huge generated HTML file). A lot of unmaintained or unloved applications will be removed (which is a totally good thing, we don't want new users choosing buggy and crashy apps), but there are also a lot of applications there that we probably want to save. Note that I don't want the packages removed from Fedora; users can still use the command line to install them, just not show them in the 'Software' GUI. "Saving" an application (so that it still appears in the software center) is just a matter of either: * Convincing upstream to ship and install an appdata file * Installing an appdata file from the Fedora package into /usr/share/appdata (if upstream is dead / unwilling to add the file) I've written a bit about the AppData status on my blog, http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2014/01/22/appdata-status-for-january/ and so far over 200 applications ship AppData in Fedora 21. That's a long way from what I'd like to see, but it's going up at about 1% per month, which is encouraging. KDE/XFCE doesn't ship gnome-software - however Apper does parse the appdata in KDE, and we also want to show awesome KDE/XFCE applications in gnome-software so this really applies distro-wide. Comments welcome, thanks. Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
