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Re: Mapping click manifest to appstore fields

 

Seems the title best matches the tagline, and what is missing from the
click package is "display name"

Pat


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:22 AM, James Westby
<james.westby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on changing the appstore submission process to extract all
> the information it can from the package, rather than having the
> submitter re-enter all the information.
>
> I have most of the pieces close to completion, but need to finalize the
> mapping between the manifest and the informaiton the user currently
> enters.
>
> In particular we have these manfifest fields:
>
> name: unique name for the application
> version: version number of the application
> title: short (one-line) synopsis of the application
> description: extended description of the application; may be
>     multi-paragraph
>
> And the following fields in the submission process
>
> Package name
> Application name
> Tagline
> Description
>
> which is presented like the following
>
>   Calculator (com.ubuntu.calculator)
>   It does sums!
>
>   This is a calculator.
>
> i.e.
>
>   Application name (package name)
>   Tagline
>
>   Description
>
> Some of these are easy:
>
> name = Package name
> description = Description
>
> Talking to popey on IRC he suggests that
>
> title = Application name
>
> Which leaves Tagline, which apparently has no analogue in the click
> package format.
>
> Is all this correct? If so is there a standard place to take the tagline
> from (e.g. the desktop file)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
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