[IAEP] [Marketing] Users cannot find Sugar with gnome-software in Fedora 20

[Iain Brown Douglas]

On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 08:55 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:

> Is a good point Iain.  Can you help us with this?

Certainly.

> If you send a AppData file, I can help with the packaging.

Thank you for the packaging offer.

Iain
> 
> 
> Gonzalo
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Iain Brown Douglas
> <iain at browndouglas.plus.com> wrote:
>         GNOME Software Center, or Software [1] is the default software
>         installer
>         for Fedora 20.
>         
>         Sugar is not found in a search of Software.
>         
>         Richard Hughes, the owner of Fedora's Changes/AppInstaller
>         [2], put out
>         a call [3] for maintainers to ship an AppData specification
>         [4], so that
>         Software will find "registered" apps.
>         
>         I asked Richard how I could help fix this and this is from his
>         reply.
>         
>                 [quote]
>                 I assume you want to show the sugar-runner
>         application.
>                 According to
>         
>         https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/screenshots/f21/failed.html#sugar-runner.desktop it's missing a Comment in the .desktop file that means we just can't show it in the search results. It's also missing an AppData file, so a long description and some screenshots.
>         
>                 If you fix up the .desktop file, and/or add an AppData
>         file that
>                 validates, then do a build+update for f21 then it
>         should
>                 re-appear in the search results after a couple of
>         days.
>         
>                 Hope this helps,
>         
>                 Richard
>                 [/quote]
>         
>         Is anyone already working on this?
>         
>         Iain Brown Douglas
>         
>         
>         [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Software
>         [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstaller
>         [3]
>         http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2013/08/29/gnome-software-center-and-you/
>         [4] http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/
>         
>         
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> Gonzalo Odiard
> 
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