Bug#990637: Why do marble have several .desktop files?
Am Di., 6. Juli 2021 um 23:02 Uhr schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>:
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> [Sune Stolborg Vuorela]
> > I hope this is sufficient response to "is there a good reason", and I
> > think the script you use should be adapted to work with this pattern.
>
> Note, the script I use operate on the appstream data set, so the fix
> need to be done in the input system for appstream, not in my script. Or
> in marble. :)
Nah, AppStream is fine - it's just a misconception that AppStream
would work on all desktop files - it interacting with desktop-files is
mostly a convenience feature with limited applicability. The MetaInfo
files are the actual true source for metadata.
If a software ships addons, upstream needs to provide matching addon
AppStream component definitions (see
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Quickstart-Addons.html
) otherwise their data will not show up in the component index (and
the addons will not be installable or removable via a GUI software
center).
Cheers,
Matthias.
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