Applications not visible in the software center

Thu Jul 17 17:56:41 UTC 2014

On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 18:14, Richard Hughes wrote:
> I've been asked by a few people if I could write a list of all the
> applications that are not being included in the AppStream metadata for
> one reason or another. The list of rules we're aiming to share between
> Suse, Fedora and Debian (which itself is work in progress, so don't
> loose a kidney just yet) is here:
> https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib#what-is-an-application
> 
> I've uploaded an interactive page at
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/screenshots/f21/failed.html which
> explains why applications are being left out. The usual reasons are
> crazy small icons, or no short description, but there are other
> reasons too. I've personally emailed all (!) the upstream maintainers
> who ship a very small icon, or one with XPM or ICO file format, so
> hopefully some of these will magically be fixed in the future.

Fixed chemtool just now, it turns out I was using the wrong icon
(a PNG icon is shipped in the tarball, too).

Regards,
Dominik
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