#5721: Need application icons and application descriptions

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#5721: Need application icons and application descriptions
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  Reporter:  rhughes          |      Owner:  rel-eng@…
      Type:  task             |     Status:  new
 Milestone:  Fedora 21 Alpha  |  Component:  other
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:
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Comment (by rhughes):

 Replying to [comment:7 ausil]:
 > We will need tooling and a way to generate the metadata in a clear
 repeatable way.

 Have you seen https://github.com/hughsie/fedora-
 appstream/blob/master/README.md ?

 > the big issue i see is we need to install the rpms to be able to read
 the file

 No, you just need the built binary rpm -- no installing involved.

 > I also don't really get how you want to distribute the data.

 As an extra appdata.xml.gz file stored on each mirror as metadata. The
 idea is that PackageKit would download this using yum/dnf whatever and
 then copy the files into the right locations.

 > one be a web based app store

 Not going to work; we've designed a thick client and need the metadata
 offline.

 > maybe we should have a meeting to discuss it.

 Can we set up a conf call to discuss this? I really need to get this
 moving, and I'm very willing to actually write the code where required.
 Perhaps early next week, aim for 4pm GMT time as a few people may well be
 in the US.

 Thanks,

 Richard

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