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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Help KDE apps comply with FlatHub's new guidelines
From:       Paul Brown <paul.brown () kde ! org>
Date:       2024-04-11 13:32:49
Message-ID: 2982444.ElGaqSPkdT () tyrell
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On Thursday 11 April 2024 14:44:00 CEST Andy B wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 7:15 AM Paul Brown <paul.brown@kde.org> wrote:
> > Dear Fellow Community Members,
> > 
> > FlatHub is changing how it will display apps on its site and has issued
> > guidelines to help project maintainers adapt the look and descriptions of
> > their apps to FlatHub's new design and layout:
> > 
> > 
> > https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/quality-> > guidelines/
> > 
> > Not that these are **guidelines**, not **rules**. Apps that do not adapt
> > will
> > not be removed or penalised, except they may just not show up on the front
> > page, as they would not fit in the aesthetic FlatHub is looking for.
> > 
> > We have started a task here:
> > 
> > https://phabricator.kde.org/T17275
> > 
> > and we are calling on app maintainers and any other contributor with a
> > developer account to help us update apps distributed via FlatHub.
> > 
> > If you would like to lend a hand, subscribe to the task, read the report
> > for
> > each app supplied by FlatHub, and help us bring them up to date.

> Thank you for making us aware of this change. I wanted to ask that we work
> closely together with the VDG designers to help in this process. If you
> can't get the original authors or app maintainers in the work, or even if
> you do, we can help adapt the icons to the standards required when it comes
> to graphics.

That would be great! What do you suggest? What other ML do you think we should 
crosspost this to? Maybe you can post and coordinate things in the VDG Matrix/
Telegram channels.

Also please feel free to add stuff to the task. Maybe add VDG-specific tasks to 
the TODO list so we can all keep track.


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