Provide AppStream Metadata

[daviank]

Hello Zenju,

Would you provide the AppStream Metadata? I think its better if this file is provided by you rather than each distribution having its own. That way you can have control on the value of the fields and all distros would share the same.

More info can be found here.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html
There is even an app stream metatada creator at this URL which should make this rather simple.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/metainfocreator/#/guiapp

Regards

[daviank]

Dear Zenju,

This is just a gentle reminder for the original post.

If you would set the content of this file and ship it or post it here, this would be beneficial to all distros, permit harmonization across them and also act as an advertisement for those interested in the advanced features of your standard, donation or enterprise editions.

Presently, because there is no standard defined for the content of this file, especially the app id, I believe there is fragmentation of the reviews of FreeFileSync. Such reviews are displayed in the linux installers like Discover on KDE, or Gnome software. You can see a snapshot of the data at https://paroj.github.io/odrs-browser/.
Review data is managed according to https://odrs.gnome.org/

Regards

[xCSxXenon]

This website is the only official source supported by the dev though, so what would be the benefit of this?

[daviank]

Better, consistent and centralized promotion of the app among Linux distribution, among other things. I invite you to read the specs.