2016-01-07 16:12 GMT+06:00 Richard Hughes (semi-automated) <autohugh...@gmail.com>: > 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 synfigstudio.desktop file or the synfigstudio.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 >
Hello, Richard! This is Konstantin Dmitriev from Synfig. Thanks for dropping a note about that! To synfig-devl members: anyone would like to take care on adding keywords? Best Regards, K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Synfig-devl mailing list Synfig-devl@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl
