The final push for the application installer in Fedora 20

[Brendan Jones]

On 09/30/2013 08:42 AM, tim.lauridsen at gmail.com wrote:
> vlc is not part of fedora, cause of patent related stuff, not a legal
> expert, but I dont think fedora cant contain somethng there links to
> these kind of applications
>
> If you create a new kind of application metadata, would it not be a good
> idea to start using the information we allready have in the .spec files
> and build from that
> instead of starting from scratch, it is better than no information at all
>
> Tim
>
>
The following query will build a template (it assumes the package name 
is the same as the desktop file name).

#!/bin/bash
echo `rpmquery $1 --qf "<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""?>\
<application><id type=""desktop"">$1.desktop</id>\
<licence>CC0</licence><name>$1</name><summary>%{SUMMARY}</summary>\
<description>%{DESCRIPTION}</description>\
<url type=""homepage"">%{URL}</url>\
<screenshots><screenshot type="default" width="800" 
height="600"></screenshot>\
</screenshots></application>"`