Richard Hughes (semi-automated) wrote:
Hi!
First, apologies for the direct email. I'm emailing you directly as you've been
listed as the update contact in one or more AppData files. In the software center we
allow the user to search using case-insensitive keywords, for instance searching for
'excel' could match Libreoffice Calc or many other free software spreadsheet
applications. At the moment we use the translated keywords set in the desktop file,
any extra<keyword> entries in the AppData file, and then fall back to
generating tokens from the name, summary and description using a heuristic. This
heuristic works most of the time, but a human can often do much better when we know
what the most important words are. I've noticed your application does not have any
manually set keywords and thought I should bring this to your attention.
So, what do I want you to do? Basically, I would like you to add some keywords
in the pcb.desktop file or the pcb.appdata.xml AppData file. If you want the
keywords to be used by GNOME Shell as well (which you probably do), the best
place to put any search terms is in the keywords section [1] of the desktop
file. This can also be marked as translatable so non-English users can search
in their own language. This would looks something like Keywords=3D;printer;
(remember the trailing semicolon!)
The alternative is to put the keywords in the AppData file so that they are
only used by the software center and not the desktop shell. You can of course
combine putting keywords in both places. The AppData keywords can also be
translated, and would look like this:
<keywords>
<keyword>3D</keyword>
<keyword>printer</keyword>
</keywords>
Of course, you don't have to do a release with this fix straight away, and if
you have a stable branch it would be a good thing to backport this as well if
it does not add translated strings or you have no string freeze policy. Nothing
bad will happen if you ignore this email, but please be aware that matches from
keywords are ordered higher in the search results than other partial matches
from the name or summary. You also don't have to add keywords that are the same
as the application name or package name, as these are automatically added as
case insensitive search tokens.
When you've changed the file(s) and committed, please email me back and I'll mark
your application as completed. If you don't want to hear from me ever again just edit
the<update_contact> in the AppData file and change it to somebody else. I'm
not planning on emailing more than once every 6 months, so don't worry about me
spamming you with even more work to do. If you don't add the keywords then your
application will still be visible in the various software centers, but it may be
harder to find.
Thanks,
Richard
[1]
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#recognized-keys
Hi Richard,
Keywords for pcb are now committed to the master branch of the pcb
repository.
I have no idea when a new release (bug fixes etc.) will be made.
You can view the commit on pcb gitweb by clicking the following URI:
http://git.geda-project.org/pcb/commit/?id=cfce7de26893aa133f608ba042a8b2988cf7c418
Kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
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