On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Richard Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 21 August 2013 14:35, Colin Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think it'd really help a lot if we had a model where we figure out how > > to generate some of it from a canonical source. For example, if we're > > now going to say that AppData is canonical, we should generate > > the .desktop file content from that. > > That's a good idea, but I'm not sure if AppData wants to be a superset > of the desktop specification. I think it's related, but orthognal. > There are cases where you'd want a different name in an software > center to the search term in the shell, and other cases like that. > Taking that into account, I don't think it would share much at all, > and the additional dep of a tool to go from XML->desktop would > probably be too much for some projects. > Which case? I think any app that does that is broken. What do you feel about using an external source for long descriptions, and using desktop files for common system metadata? I also feel like the system of "describing this application" has to be done in a common format by one of other OS vendors. Have we looked into what Ubuntu, OS X, iOS, Android, and Windows do for this? Is it an XML-based format we can share? Richard. > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -- Jasper
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