On 27 January 2011 14:41, seth vidal <[email protected]> wrote: > It would probably make a lot of sense to keep the description as just > text.
Please, no. We certainly want links, formatting, headers and that kind of thing. Paragraphs, bullets and all the things we come to expect on a modern GUI application are really a hard requirement from my point of view. > Getting into various markup languages for it is going to cause pain > later as you have to filter out cruft from the descriptions you're stuck > with. And it will mean dealing with this data from cli will be annoying. I don't think the CLI user should be a focus of AppStream. I also don't think reading a page of formatted text on the CLI is going to be terribly useful either. Richard. _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
