Firstly - apologies for sending this to -devel. Please point me at a
better place to ask the question if there is one.
One of my packages is an application and ships a .desktop file and
appstream xml. The tracker.debian.org page for the package complained
that the ID for package didn't follow the {tld}.{vendor}.{product}
scheme[1], so I modified so that it did.
Now I have a report from a Gnome 3 user that since the above change, it
is no longer possible to add the application as a "favorite".
It seems that adding an application is only possible in Gnome 3 if the
ID is exactly the same as the executable name.
Given there seem to be plenty of gnome-* applications that use the
{tld}.{vendor}.{product} scheme, I seem to be missing something.
How can I pick an ID that satisfies the appstream parser referred to by
tracker.debian.org, and allows Gnome 3 users to add the application as a
favorite?
Regards
Jeff
[1]
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-id-generic
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