Currently,
the documentation doesn't clearly mention that the app-id in the AppData file is not anyhow related to the application ID that should be used internally. This leads to a misunderstanding from my part and updating the ID of some GNOME apps to remove .desktop suffix from the ID that was moved to the launchable tag.
I think we could improve the documentation of the ID tag and clearly mention that both are not related anyhow and the later is used only in GNOME Software/KDE Discover and so on.
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Currently,
the documentation doesn't clearly mention that the app-id in the AppData file is not anyhow related to the application ID that should be used internally. This leads to a misunderstanding from my part and updating the ID of some GNOME apps to remove
.desktopsuffix from the ID that was moved to the launchable tag.A lot of other GNOME contributors/developers didn't know there was a difference between the Application ID and the Appstream ID. See the discussion here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/merge_requests/203
I think we could improve the documentation of the ID tag and clearly mention that both are not related anyhow and the later is used only in GNOME Software/KDE Discover and so on.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: