Cheers. I was reading through the PR change log thinking it would be quite easy to copy/paste :)
Then I came across <categories> in the appdata.xml, and wondered what to put there. Indeed, lots of reading! Seems much easier to copy/paste little examples. On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Kluyver <tak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks René, > > There are docs on how to package applications with Flatpak: > http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/index.html > > And a wiki which describes the specific recommendations for distributing > applications on Flathub: > https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission > > However, the desktop file and appdata.xml are separate standards which > have their own documentation: > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry- > spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/index.html > > Needless to say, that's quite a bit of reading! This is a big part of why > I'm preparing this simple example. I hope people will use it as a template: > copy and paste the packaging info and modify it to fit their own games. > > I'm also working on an overview guide to the technologies you need for > desktop Linux applications, which should refer to a lot of these > technologies without going into the same detail as the specifications. And > I have some ideas about tooling to generate a flatpak manifest from pip > packages. > > Thomas >
