GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 769539
Ship AppStream metadata file
Last modified: 2016-09-29 11:36:10 UTC
Created attachment 332785 [details] addon metadata file Hi, I'd like to ask you if you could ship a small xml file that contains AppStream metadata. It's a distro-agnostic format for AppStore-like catalogs for Linux distributions: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Quickstart-Addons.html AppStream-based catalogs are currently included in all major Linux distributions: Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch,... If the xml file is copied to %{datadir}/appdata/ (typically /usr/share/appdata) the plugin appears in the profile of the app (Nautilus) and is easily discoverable and installable for users. I've create the file for you. See the attachment.
I would make it a dependency of nautilus in the distribution, and consider it a distribution component, instead of an add-on, removing the need to add an AppData file for it.
Hey! So the idea here was to add the metadata file for upstream so that if it's not compulsory we can add and remove it in gnome-software. If we do decide to make nautilus-sendto compulsory in fedora-workstation by doing a hard dep we can trivially mark the metadata as compulsory which means it won't show up in the list of addons in gnome-software. I think having this upstream is a really good idea. Richard.
*** Bug 760893 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
commit bd527b9a1206b4c0ff8ea7000525dc15d4e839d3 Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Thu Sep 29 13:17:13 2016 +0200 main: Add AppData to show up in Software Make nautilus-sendto show up in Software as an extension to nautilus. Original appdata file from Frank Zimmer <frank.e.zimmer@gmail.com> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769539