The game was accepted in Flathub, so you can now see it on the site here: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.inventwithpython.flippy
And the packaging information from the PR is now in its own repository: https://github.com/flathub/com.inventwithpython.flippy On 14 July 2018 at 08:41, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >
