AppStream: metainfo.xml files are not prioritized over desktop-files
Hello,
I couldn't find a mailing list dedicated to AppStream in Debian [1][2].
Feel free to redirect me if I missed one.
Debian's AppStream guidelines [3] telling me
"If you provide a metainfo file its information will be preferred
over that in the .desktop file."
But after some tests (using "terminator" and "hexchat" installed on my
Debian 12) I was not able to verify that.
I modified the fields in the xml and desktop files. I used the original
and the translated fields and added extra debug info to it.
Even after a full reboot the launcher icon in XFCE4 do show me the
content of the desktop file and ignores the xml file in
/usr/share/metainfo .
Any idea why it is that way?
But without surprise the "gnome-software" do show me the content from
the xml file of course.
Thanks in advance
Christian
Upstream maintenance team of "backintime" [4]
[1] -- <https://appstream.debian.org/>
[2] -- <https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream>
[3] --
<https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines#Writing_a_metainfo_file>
[4] -- <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/backintime>
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