1071065 - Please install the supplied AppData file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1597344

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
Build ID: 20140816133558

Steps to reproduce:

Please consider installing this AppData file we wrote: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream/master/appdata-extra/desktop/mozilla-thunderbird.appdata.xml

This is used in GNOME and KDE software installers to add the application description and some screenshots. We'd love to showcase more applications, but without the extra data file we can't. The AppData file needs to be installed to /usr/share/appdata/ on Linux and the basename needs to match the .desktop basename. It would also be great if you could integrate the file with your translation system (e.g. intltool) to make the descriptions translated.

See http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ for more details; thanks!

Richard



Actual results:

Thunderbird looks rubbish in the software centers.


Expected results:

Thunderbird shoud look beautiful! :)

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Mozilla.org doesn't provide an installer for linux, only a .tar.bz2 file is offered
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/31.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/
Packages are created by the distributions and you have to ask Fedora, Ubuntu, debian ... to include it in their packages

Comment 2

[Tristan Miller]

Per Bug 1071061 Comment 2, do we want to reopen this bug for Thunderbird also?

Comment 3

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Moved to bug 1597344.