Linux: Add and install app metadata file #119
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| <description> | ||
| <p>Detect It Easy, or abbreviated "DIE" is a program to analyze files you load into the application.</p> | ||
| <p>It detects, among other things, the compiler and linker used, signatures, and other information about files.</p> | ||
| <p>The program has been designed specifically to reveal file signatures and how they are packed.</p> | ||
| <p>Some of the binary formats supported:</p> | ||
| <ul> | ||
| <li>MS-DOS: DOS MZ</li> | ||
| <li>Windows: Portable Executable (PE)</li> | ||
| <li>*Nix: Executable and Linkable Format (ELF)</li> | ||
| <li>macOS: Mach Object (Mach-O)</li> | ||
| </ul> | ||
| </description> |
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Let me know if this description does your app justice.
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The description is awesome. Thanks! :)
| <launchable type="desktop-id">io.github.horsicq.detect-it-easy.desktop</launchable> | ||
| <screenshots> | ||
| <screenshot type="default"> | ||
| <image>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/guihkx/flatpak-app-detect-it-easy/ef62b241881138f43ce7004b5a6760d5f6c24deb/screenshots/main_window_basic_view.png</image> |
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This screenshot, and the one below this one, are currently being hosted on my repository, which is not ideal, but should be fine for now.
In any case, let me know if you have a better place to host them right now (or if you just want take different screenshots yourself).
Here's the recommended guidelines for them.
| <release version="3.10" date="2024-11-03"> | ||
| <url>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy/refs/heads/master/changelog.txt</url> | ||
| </release> |
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This is arguably the most important tag here.
Before releasing a new version, you must always update this section.
You can achieve that in two ways:
1. Add a new <release> tag at the top, for example:
<releases>
<release version="3.11" date="2025-01-03">
<url>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy/refs/heads/master/changelog.txt</url>
</release>
<release version="3.10" date="2024-11-03">
<url>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy/refs/heads/master/changelog.txt</url>
</release>
</releases>2. Keep just a single <release> tag, for example:
<releases>
<release version="3.11" date="2025-01-03">
<url>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy/refs/heads/master/changelog.txt</url>
</release>
</releases>| @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ if [ -z "$X_ERROR" ]; then | |||
| cp -f $X_SOURCE_PATH/build/release/diel $X_SOURCE_PATH/release/$X_BUILD_NAME/usr/bin/ | |||
| cp -f $X_SOURCE_PATH/LINUX/io.github.horsicq.detect-it-easy.desktop $X_SOURCE_PATH/release/$X_BUILD_NAME/usr/share/applications/ | |||
| cp -Rf $X_SOURCE_PATH/LINUX/hicolor/ $X_SOURCE_PATH/release/$X_BUILD_NAME/usr/share/icons/ | |||
| cp -f $X_SOURCE_PATH/LINUX/io.github.horsicq.detect-it-easy.metainfo.xml $X_SOURCE_PATH/release/$X_BUILD_NAME/usr/share/metainfo/ | |||
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This change messes up the indentation of this section...
If you think that doesn't look good, let me know and I'll add extra whitespaces to the lines above to align the two columns.
| @@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ cp -f $X_SOURCE_PATH/build/release/diec $X_PREFIX/bi | |||
| cp -f $X_SOURCE_PATH/build/release/diel $X_PREFIX/bin/ | |||
| cp -f $X_SOURCE_PATH/LINUX/io.github.horsicq.detect-it-easy.desktop $X_PREFIX/share/applications/ | |||
| cp -Rf $X_SOURCE_PATH/LINUX/hicolor/ $X_PREFIX/share/icons/ | |||
| cp -f $X_SOURCE_PATH/LINUX/io.github.horsicq.detect-it-easy.metainfo.xml $X_PREFIX/share/metainfo/ | |||
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This change messes up the indentation of this section...
If you think that doesn't look good, let me know and I'll add extra whitespaces to the lines above to align the two columns.
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Thanks for merging! Please note that these changes also depend on horsicq/build_tools@895f03f (at least for some packaging formats). But I notice you update all submodules frequently so that should be taken care of soon. :) |
This metadata file dictates how your app will be presented to users on Linux app stores.
Here's an example of a random app on Flathub, and here's the app metainfo file for reference.
Documentation: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html
This is (hopefully) the last missing piece for horsicq/Detect-It-Easy#189!