AppData in RPMFusion

[Nikos Roussos]

On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 18:06 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> Hello RPM Fusion developers.
> 
> 
> I'm interested in adding AppData metadata for RPM Fusion.
> 
> This will make RPMFusion apps look better in gnome-software (the
> default app installer in Fedora) and greatly improve our user
> experience. RPM Fusion apps will be easily discoverable by users and
> will get more exposure. Users will no longer need to use a command
> line to install VLC, for example.
> 
> 
> The AppData metadata includes simple XML files with app descriptions,
> and a tarball of app icons.
> 
> They can be distributed in the rpmfusion-free-release and
> rpmfusion-nonfree-release packages and will only add a couple more
> megabytes. 
> 
> They can also be distributed in a different package (that would be
> pulled by a comps group like RPM Fusion already does for certain
> codecs), but the user experience will suffer because the users need to
> run an update to get the metadata.
> 
> 
> The generated metadata can also contain screenshots, but those are not
> installed on the user's computer but rather pulled from a web server.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm willing to help to get RPM Fusion to have application metadata,
> but I'm unfamiliar with the rpmfusion infrastructure and workflows, so
> I'll need help with someone who is familiar with rpmfusion more.
> 
> 
> 
> So, what do you say? Do you want RPM Fusion to have AppData metadata?

+1. I think it's really frustrating for end users that they can't
currently find RPMfusion applications through Software Center (which is
the default and only preinstalled application for installing new
software).

~nikos

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