gnome-software-3.36.1-1.fc32.x86_64 Description of problem: I was having issues with gnome-software picking up the icon images for some of my packaged desktop applications. This is because gnome-software diverges from the appstream spec a bit (I think). Turns out there were two issues. 1. I didn't include all the PNG icon images with one version of my releases because I thought SVGs were sufficient. They are not. I fixed that. This is not a bug, but maybe the documentation needs to improve somewhere (gnome-software has no documentation as far as I can tell) 2. I had the .metainfo.xml file better meet the spec. That included changing the ID tag value from [productname].desktop to [appid] ... and not [appid].desktop. According to <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html> it should be the appid and the launchable tag will have the "desktop-id" and the full [appid].desktop as the value. (And yes, I changed the actual filename to match.) The result was an icon on the desktop, but the icon was missing for the listing in gnome-software. Expected results: 1. a desktop file called [appid].desktop 2. a metainfo file called [appid].metainfo.xml 3. In that metainfo file, <id>[appid]</id> and <launchable type="desktop-id">[appid].desktop</launchable> 4. Icon on the desktop and icon in the gnome-software listing for the application. Additional info: I spoke to Richard Hughes on IRC and he pointed out the need to ensure the PNG icons are included because gnome-software requires this. I figured out the .desktop thing on my own.
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
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Can you provide more information (possibly a link to the example application that is having problems)? I tried an application I work with that has the rdns naming scheme and the launcher-id tag and it seems to be working as expected in F34.
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