There’s a new version of the AppData validation tool, and this one actually downloads and validates the screenshots you’ve included in the .appdata.xml files. See the AppData specifications for guidelines on how to make good screenshots.
Get it while it’s hot, appdata-tools-0.1.4.tar.xz or I’ve built Fedora RPMs too.
Please yell if you think you’ve written a valid file, and it fails to validate using the tool. We’ve added a lot more checks, and we’re getting more strict — so please revalidate your file if you’ve already done so. Thanks!
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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management.
Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.
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How is one supposed to make 16:9 screenshots? Manually roughly resize the window so that it fits? Is there a screenshot tool that does that?
This is what I did for gnome-software: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/tree/data/appdata/resize-window.sh
Can you mention that command in the AppData spec?
I’m actually working with the gnome-shell developers to get a keybinding to resize an app to the required aspect ratio. That would be waaay cooler and much easier to use.