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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the feedback.

Steve, I won't be changing anything about how the version information is
generated, only adding a tag to the appdata file to contain the full
version (this will be the same as the version that gets displayed in the
help window, so it contains the distro-specific extra version as well).

The main effect that this will have is that the kicad.appdata.xml file will
no longer be directly available in the source package, and will only be
available after CMake has been run. I wanted to make sure that this
wouldn't break any packaging scripts (which I think it wouldn't).

Carsten, thanks for pointing those changes out. I will update the file with
them as well. Redoing the screenshots is also on my todo list (since they
still show a v4 release currently). Do you know what the guidelines are for
sizing of them? I see that the current ones are 1024x576, and I can't seem
to find any information on the suggested size (other than that Fedora
recommends they are 16:9).

Thanks,
-Ian

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 5:39 AM Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hello Ian,
>
> On 28.11.19 17:53, Ian McInerney wrote:
> > I would like to change the way we generate the kicad.appdata.xml file to
> > have it be generated by CMake and include the version string inside of
> > it (that way the version will appear in the app stores and other places
> > that reference this). I don't think this will cause any issues, but I
> > just want to see if anyone sees any problems with this.
>
> this can't be a problem as the AppStream specification is holding a key
> for versioning information. Please see section 4.1.2, <releases> ...
> </releases>
>
> >
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html#sect-Quickstart-DesktopApps
>
> If you touch this all I'd suggest to update all URLs within the appdata
> file as now the kicad-pcb.org domain is served by https.
>
> > $ git diff
> > diff --git a/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml
> b/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml
> > index 2fc29f0c1..550cb10c5 100644
> > --- a/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml
> > +++ b/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml
> > @@ -46,27 +46,27 @@
> >
> >    <screenshots>
> >      <screenshot type="default">
> > -      <image width="1024" height="576">
> http://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/kicad.png</image>
> > +      <image width="1024" height="576">
> https://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/kicad.png</image>
> >      </screenshot>
> >
> >      <screenshot>
> >        <caption>Eeschema Schematic Editor</caption>
> > -      <image width="1024" height="576">
> http://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/eeschema.png</image>
> > +      <image width="1024" height="576">
> https://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/eeschema.png</image>
> >      </screenshot>
> >
> >      <screenshot>
> >        <caption>PcbNew PCB Layout</caption>
> > -      <image width="1024" height="576">
> http://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/pcbnew.png</image>
> > +      <image width="1024" height="576">
> https://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/pcbnew.png</image>
> >      </screenshot>
> >
> >      <screenshot>
> >        <caption>PcbNew 3D Viewer</caption>
> > -      <image width="1024" height="576">
> http://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/3dviewer.png</image>
> > +      <image width="1024" height="576">
> https://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/3dviewer.png</image>
> >      </screenshot>
> >    </screenshots>
> >
> > -  <url type="homepage">http://kicad-pcb.org/</url>
> > -  <url type="bugtracker">http://kicad-pcb.org/help/report-a-bug/</url>
> > +  <url type="homepage">https://kicad-pcb.org/</url>
> > +  <url type="bugtracker">https://kicad-pcb.org/help/report-a-bug/</url>
> >    <update_contact>kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</update_contact>
> >    <developer_name>The KiCad Developers</developer_name>
> >  </component>
>
> This reminds me that all the screenshots should be updated too. ;)
>
> The validator for the AppData content within the Debian QA is mentioning
> that the component ID is not a reverse domain-name. Should get fixed too
> in case the file is getting changed.
>
> > https://appstream.debian.org/sid/main/issues/kicad.html
>
> --
> Regards
> Carsten Schoenert
>
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