ximion/metainfocreator

Create AppStream MetaInfo files and auxiliary fd.o metadata easily

metainfocreator's Issues

Homepage is missing from the generated config

I included a homepage in the form:

but it's missing from the generated config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<component type="desktop-application">
  <id>net.launchpad.email_reminder</id>
  
  <name>Email-reminder</name>
  <summary>Send event reminders by email</summary>
  
  <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
  <project_license>GPL-3.0-or-later</project_license>
  
  <description>
    <p>
      Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email.  Possible events include birthdays, anniversaries and yearly events. Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and/or a few days beforehand.
    </p>
  </description>
  
  <launchable type="desktop-id">email-reminder.desktop</launchable>
  <screenshots>
    <screenshot type="default">
      <image>https://screenshots.debian.net/shrine/screenshot/336/simage/large-bd786dc14681f22164a138cf7c968902.png</image>
    </screenshot>
    <screenshot>
      <image>https://screenshots.debian.net/shrine/screenshot/150/simage/large-60f5de6cb52722984fecbb86f5a880d7.png</image>
    </screenshot>
    <screenshot>
      <image>https://screenshots.debian.net/shrine/screenshot/337/simage/large-d39de85025841fa04a20e40884921140.png</image>
    </screenshot>
  </screenshots>
</component>

Ambiguosly choosing LGPL license

When choosing a license, it is ambiguous what is exactly chosen. See the screenshot

And the licenses in https://github.com/ximion/metainfocreator/blob/master/src/assets/spdx-licenses.json#L1019

For the user it is not clear why there are duplicates or what is the impacht of chosing one of two licenses with the same name.

Missing secondary category spell checker

Missing secondary category spell checker

https://github.com/ximion/metainfocreator/blob/master/src/assets/categories-secondary.json#L240

Add support for adding releases

It would be great to support adding releases. This is a requirement to publish a Flatpak application. Some useful fields to support would be description and url.

Example:
https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport/blob/9bfedcf17e17eee7eff505b18543987740e66eae/internal/assets/unix/io.github.jacalz.rymdport.appdata.xml#L39

Add support for creating OARS rating

It would be great if an OARS rating could be generated similar to https://hughsie.github.io/oars/generate.html.

Wishlist: Metainfo validation service

Having this tool will hopefully greatly help people put together properly working metainfo files. What would be great to have, too, would be a validation service for metainfo files, e.g., some REST API you could POST a metainfo file to and get back its validity.

Capitalisation and hyphenation of final element of <id>

Most packages on flathub capitalise the final element of a .

The specification seems to suggest that hyphens are acceptable in the final element https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-id-generic

This creator takes "Celestia-qt6" and "https://celestiaproject.space" and produces: <id>space.celestiaproject.celestia_qt6</id>

Should I should change every instance of the id to space.celestiaproject.celestia_qt6 or is space.celestiaproject.Celestia-qt6 is acceptable in the metainfo file?

Add fields for donations, bug tracker and translations

The field for homepage is there, but it would be great if we could input links for donations and bug tracker.

Example:

  <url type="bugtracker">https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport/issues</url>
  <url type="donation">https://github.com/sponsors/Jacalz</url>

Also translations:

https://github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee/blob/59a36d8f8a79918749a9da298bf559a0cedc4cf8/com.rawtherapee.RawTherapee.appdata.xml#L22

Error if no www. subdomain

The FreeDesktop site is browsable with or without the www. subdomain, but this web app errors when it's missing.

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/metainfocreator/runtime-es2015.45e9bfaa34de10543cc5.js. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing). Status code: 200.

Module source URI is not allowed in this document: “https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/metainfocreator/runtime-es2015.45e9bfaa34de10543cc5.js”.

Won’t allow hyphens in application ID

Hi there. Thank you for creating this great piece of software.
I was looking at using it for creating appstream metadata for my application called wormhole-gui. When I entered the unique identifier for it (com.github.jacalz.wormhole-gui), it complained about hyphens not being allowed.

I know that websites allow hyphens (https://wi-fi.org) and I couldn’t find any information about hyphens not being allowed for unique software identifiers (or appID). Is this something that is specific to the appstream specification or am I just missing something obvious here? I would greatly appreciate if someone could clear up the situation for me :)

Prepopulate reasonable default value

Hi @ximion thanks for making this useful web app.

Maybe you'd like to prepopulate reasonable default values, like I had done in http://output.jsbin.com/qoqukof - seeing reasonable default values always helps me to know what I am supposed to enter without thinking much.