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-- Commit Summary --
* Add appdata file
-- File Changes --
M .gitignore (1) M Makefile.am (6) A org.geany.Geany.appdata.xml.in (47) M po/POTFILES.in (1)
-- Patch Links --
https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/2014.patch https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/2014.diff
Oh I now realize #1142 existed but this uses the updated format and that PR hasn't been touched in years it seems.
You need to add the generated file to `DISTCLEANFILES` just like the `.desktop`.
Also needs to be added to scripts version_bump and set_release_date.
Also needs to be added to scripts version_bump and set_release_date.
Well it should have hand written release notes, so it needs more than that.
This seems OK and low maintenance, 👍 for me after the string freeze.
Well it should have hand written release notes, so it needs more than that.
And so we are back to all the comments on #1142 about the maintenance effort, although perhaps @codebrainz is volunteering to maintain it. :grin:
@codebrainz / @elextr Unrelated / Related to maintainence: Do you guys need some help in maintainence? Can help too if you want.
Just saw there are so many issues and PRs open with no recent activity, this may give a potential new contributor feelings like contribution isn't worth it. --> There are still e.g. PRs from 2013 open that were not touched for long time...maybe ask there for current status or close them?
@gsantner as a volunteer project being done in peoples spare? time Geany is always looking for help.
From time to time somebody goes around and pings/purges old issues and pull requests that have no interaction for ages. Thats done less for pull requests because they do indicate that someone put in the effort to make them, even if they didn't follow up or address comments its possible someone else might.
Most of us contribute because we are into coding, Geany is an IDE after all, so administrative things like chasing up old PRs and issues is less attractive :grin:
In the specific case of the appdata file, from #1142 it seems the Geany maintainer is fairly negative about maintaining something that is very distro specific. Does a KDE distro really want Gnome screenshots and Cinnamon looks different again? For example I just updated to the latest Mint and found icons are provided for save all and build so Geany's fallback "blue floppy disk stack" and "red fallen over bookcase" icons don't show, but they have on every other distro I've used (including older mints) and stand out like [colloquial expression elided] on "modern" flat dark themes.
@gsantner definitely. Testing, reviewing and following up on Issues/PRs is a great start. Generally such meta stuff is discussed on the Geany developers mailing list.
@elextr distros would be free to change the appdata file/images however they like as they do for other stuff, similar to how Mint did previously by having their default icon theme provide overrides for those non-standard icons you mentioned.
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