<p>Well, Geany could provide an <code>appdata.xml</code> but it would be very bland, it could have no distro specific information in it, like "GTK3" in the example you gave.  So distros may not use it anyway.</p>
<p>And it would have to be integrated with the internationalisation system properly (<code>appdata.xml.in</code> maybe?).</p>
<p>If somebody made a pull request that did that, we can query our packagers to see if they think its worth it.</p>

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