Re: [Ayatana-dev] Searching for applications, keywords and synonyms

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Dylan McCall wrote on 20/01/11 08:27:
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>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> MPT is worth talking to, as he will have good thoughts about how we
>>> can get a rich base of textual data for the search. Anything in the
>>> Dash applies pretty much directly to Ubuntu Software Centre too :-)
>>> so it's worth chatting to MPT and the developers of USC.

USC 1.0 and later use the X-AppInstall-Keywords: field for this. It's
not a great name, and I think only about two packages have the keywords
so far, so maybe it could be renamed to just X-Keywords: or similar.

> Here's my latest invention :b
> http://menukeywords.appspot.com/

That's cool!

For a couple of years now, I have wished for a feature in Launchpad
where people can see what the current metadata is for a package (and
whatever .desktop files are inside it), and fill in fields to suggest
better metadata: title, description, keywords, icon (if you're an
artist), primary category and subcategory (as shown in USC), secondary
category and subcategory, and other debtags.

Then a package maintainer can come along and say "I like that
suggestion, and that one, and that one", click a button, and Launchpad
changes that metadata in the source package ready for the next rebuild.

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