Re: AppData proposal

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On 21 August 2013 14:35, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> I think it'd really help a lot if we had a model where we figure out how
> to generate some of it from a canonical source.  For example, if we're
> now going to say that AppData is canonical, we should generate
> the .desktop file content from that.

That's a good idea, but I'm not sure if AppData wants to be a superset
of the desktop specification. I think it's related, but orthognal.
There are cases where you'd want a different name in an software
center to the search term in the shell, and other cases like that.
Taking that into account, I don't think it would share much at all,
and the additional dep of a tool to go from XML->desktop would
probably be too much for some projects.

Richard.