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In this way new applications can be easily installed from the desktop GUI too.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014:
Are you using a packaged Fedora application and is it going to be
included in Fedora 22's Software Center? Then it will need to supply
AppData. Earlier it was told that Fedora 22 applications were required
to provide AppData, which means providing a meta-data specification for
giving basic data about a program.
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Now, as suggested by Richard Hughes, known for PackageKit or
ColorHug, it's getting mandatory that AppData files are supplied for all
those applications which are present in the Software Center. In this
way new applications can be easily installed from the desktop GUI too.
Presently, half of the applications of Fedora 21 are served with the
AppData. Hughes is not saying that AppData needs complete coverage for
lower-end applications too. You can check out Hughes' proposal here.
If
any application package is not supplied with AppData then they cannot
be installed through the desktop GUI. Several KDE components and
application packages are supplied without AppData. The common packages
will slowly receive AppData XML files and own AppData will also arrive
in patches. AppData is a GNOME-backed specification, which is based on a
subset of the AppStream meta-data proposal. Fedora 22 is expected to
arrive around mid-2015 and DNF is likely to replace Yum as the biggest
change in the Fedora packaging.
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