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[Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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