On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 14:22 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Well you must have some appstream metadata, or the web app will not > appear in GNOME Software. But Epiphany itself never looks at the > appstream metadata. I would completely ignore that page of the spec > because none of that metadata will be used for anything.
At Purism we intend to use that Appstream metadata for a variety of things, like determining if the app is suitable for a small screen, etc. > If you want web apps to have more features... well, I'm not working > on > it myself, but patches welcome. What most users would be interested > in > is not appstream, though, but Web App Manifest from > https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/. I should review this, maybe this is good input for Appstream specification work. > Not all of the fields in that spec > would make sense for Epiphany, but probably some could be supported. > The question would be: how would installation work? Okay, I'll look at this and try and have some useful input. > Ideally, before putting more effort into web apps, which are semi- > dead > due to the lack of flatpak support, we would figure out how to make > them work in flatpak. This is an interesting idea but seems to imply that a web app is going to need one of the flatpak'd runtimes which might be overkill for a web app? > What we need is a sort of replication portal to > allow apps to install and delete different versions of themselves. Regards, Jeremiah _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list epiphany-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
