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Please create an AppData file for sqlitebrowser #178

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hughsie opened this issue Jan 2, 2015 · 8 comments
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Please create an AppData file for sqlitebrowser #178

hughsie opened this issue Jan 2, 2015 · 8 comments
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hughsie commented Jan 2, 2015

Please consider writing and installing an AppData file with the application description and some screenshots, else sqlitebrowser looks really bad in the GNOME and KDE Software Centers. We'd love to showcase more applications, but without the extra data file we can't.

See http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ for details; thanks!

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I believe you can do this yourself via a pull request, so why not do it yourself, you seem to know what is required?

Rather than use developer time on this, I reckon someone else could help with this, if you. I would be happy to give it a go if there are no other volunteers and it is agreed this is a good thing.

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hughsie commented Jan 2, 2015

Right, I could indeed do a pull request. There are three main reason I've asked upstream maintainers to do this rather than just submit something myself:

  • You probably know the application inside out, e.g. how to take screenshots to fully show off all the features that would take many weeks of me using to find out.
  • You can update the description and screenshots yourself when you add new features or port the UI to a new toolkit.
  • Time; so far 473 upstream projects[1] have written AppData files, and I simple can't scale myself to do all that.

Also, according to https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/screenshots/f22/matrix.html sqlitebrowser doesn't have any keywords in the .desktop file, which means that searching for it in the software center is going to be harder.

[1] https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/screenshots/f22/status.html -- warning, BIG HTML page

@justinclift justinclift added the enhancement Feature requests. label Jan 19, 2015
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This isn't something I'm personally interested in doing (not a fan of Gnome, and I don't use KDE). However if someone does a pull request with the right bits, we'll happily merge it. 😀

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@glawrence Any interest in picking this up? If you're willing to, we might as well get it done... 😉

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Yes, ok, I will give this a go. Do you have a target date for the next release?

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Yep, April 18th. 😄

    https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/milestones

glawrence added a commit to glawrence/sqlitebrowser that referenced this issue Mar 23, 2015
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Create an AppData file
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As per issue sqlitebrowser#178 I have created an AppData file and got it to install
to /usr/local/share/appdata/. I believe the license and updatecontact
tags need checking.
@glawrence glawrence mentioned this issue Mar 23, 2015
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I have created a pull request, please see my comments in the request as I believe it needs to be checked.

@hughsie could you take a quick look too please?

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Awesome stuff @glawrence. 😄

@justinclift justinclift added this to the 3.6 milestone Mar 26, 2015
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