Re: [gcmd-dev] Keywords required for the software center

[Michael]

Did anybody do this already ?

It doesn't seem a bad idea.

gcmd 1.4.7 desktop file attached with some random ideas


> Hi!
> 
> First, apologies for the direct email. I'm emailing you directly as you've 
> been listed as the update contact in one or more AppData files. In the 
> software center we allow the user to search using case-insensitive keywords, 
> for instance searching for 'excel' could match Libreoffice Calc or many other 
> free software spreadsheet applications. At the moment we use the translated 
> keywords set in the desktop file, any extra <keyword> entries in the AppData 
> file, and then fall back to generating tokens from the name, summary and 
> description using a heuristic. This heuristic works most of the time, but a 
> human can often do much better when we know what the most important words 
> are. I've noticed your application does not have any manually set keywords 
> and thought I should bring this to your attention.
> 
> So, what do I want you to do? Basically, I would like you to add some 
> keywords in the gnome-commander.desktop file or the 
> gnome-commander.appdata.xml AppData file. If you want the keywords to be used 
> by GNOME Shell as well (which you probably do), the best place to put any 
> search terms is in the keywords section [1] of the desktop file. This can 
> also be marked as translatable so non-English users can search in their own 
> language. This would looks something like Keywords=3D;printer; (remember the 
> trailing semicolon!)
> 
> The alternative is to put the keywords in the AppData file so that they are 
> only used by the software center and not the desktop shell. You can of course 
> combine putting keywords in both places. The AppData keywords can also be 
> translated, and would look like this:
> 
> <keywords>
> <keyword>3D</keyword>
> <keyword>printer</keyword>
> </keywords>
> 
> Of course, you don't have to do a release with this fix straight away, and if 
> you have a stable branch it would be a good thing to backport this as well if 
> it does not add translated strings or you have no string freeze policy. 
> Nothing bad will happen if you ignore this email, but please be aware that 
> matches from keywords are ordered higher in the search results than other 
> partial matches from the name or summary. You also don't have to add keywords 
> that are the same as the application name or package name, as these are 
> automatically added as case insensitive search tokens.
> 
> When you've changed the file(s) and committed, please email me back and I'll 
> mark your application as completed. If you don't want to hear from me ever 
> again just edit the <update_contact> in the AppData file and change it to 
> somebody else. I'm not planning on emailing more than once every 6 months, so 
> don't worry about me spamming you with even more work to do. If you don't add 
> the keywords then your application will still be visible in the various 
> software centers, but it may be harder to find.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard
> 
> [1] 
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#recognized-keys
> 
> 
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