Opened 11 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#2306 closed enhancement (fixed)
Please create an AppData file for GRASS
| Reported by: | hughsient | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 7.0.0 |
| Component: | Docs | Version: | svn-trunk |
| Keywords: | AppData | Cc: | |
| CPU: | All | Platform: | Linux |
Description
Please consider writing and installing an AppData file with the application description and some screenshots, else GRASS looks really bad in the GNOME Software Center and also Apper in KDE. We'd love to showcase GRASS as a featured application, but we need the extra installer data before we can do that. See http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ for details.
Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks!
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Change History (8)
comment:1 by , 11 years ago
comment:2 by , 11 years ago
I've attached what I came up with quickly for Fedora. Comments welcome -- if it's entirely suitable, please just include this upstream and install it to /usr/share/appdata on Linux builds -- but feel free to modify the prose or swap around the screenshots. Thanks!
comment:3 by , 10 years ago
Added to source code in r60717 (trunk) and subsequent for GRASS 7.0.svn, 6.5.svn and 6.4.svn.
Remaining issue: install it to the requested /usr/share/appdata which is (usually) left to the packager. Keeping ticket open for the case that this is not true.
comment:4 by , 10 years ago
Update: I have moved the XML file to gui/icons/ alongside with grass.desktop. grass.appdata.xml will now copied at compile time into
dist.$ARCH/share/appdata/
comment:6 by , 10 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Yes, the AppData in 6.4.4 works really well, thanks!
There is a "desktop" file in the source code: gui/icons/grass.desktop
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0/gui/icons/grass.desktop
Maybe it could be reused. Screenshots we can grab from here: http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/