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Adding fonts to software centers

Sep 28, 2017By Matthias

Last year, the AppStream specification gained proper support for adding metadata for fonts, after Richard Hughes did some work on it years ago. We weren’t happy with how fonts were handled at that time, so we searched for better solutions,Read more…

Sep 28, 2017Matthias 1 comment

About Tanglu…

Apr 4, 2017By Matthias

It’s time for a long-overdue blogpost about the status of Tanglu. Tanglu is a Debian derivative, started in early 2013 when the systemd debate at Debian was still hot. It was formed by a few people wanting to create aRead more…

Apr 4, 2017Matthias 5 comments

A few words about the future of the Limba project

Jun 17, 2016By Matthias

I wanted to write this blogpost since April, and even announced it in two previous posts, but never got to actually write it until now. And with the recent events in Snappy and Flatpak land, I can not defer thisRead more…

Jun 17, 2016Matthias 14 comments

Adventures in D programming

May 6, 2016By Matthias

I recently wrote a bigger project in the D programming language, the appstream-generator (asgen). Since I rarely leave the C/C++/Python realm, and came to like many aspects of D, I thought blogging about my experience could be useful for peopleRead more…

May 6, 2016Matthias 15 comments

Why are AppStream metainfo files XML data?

Apr 26, 2016By Matthias

This is a question raised quite quite often, the last time in a blogpost by Thomas, so I thought it is a good idea to give a slightly longer explanation (and also create an article to link to…). There areRead more…

Apr 26, 2016Matthias 11 comments

A GNOME Software Hackfest report

Apr 26, 2016By Matthias

Two weeks ago was the GNOME Software hackfest in London, and I’ve been there! And I just now found the time to blog about it, but better do it late than never 😉 . Arriving in London and finding theRead more…

Apr 26, 2016Matthias 1 comment

Introducing AppStream-Generator

Apr 16, 2016By Matthias

Since mid-2015 we were using the dep11-generator in Debian to build AppStream metadata about available software components in the distribution. Getting rid of dep11-generator Unfortunately, the old Python-based dep11-generator was hitting some hard limits pretty soon. For example, using multiprocessingRead more…

Apr 16, 2016Matthias 3 comments

AppStream/DEP-11 fully supported in Debian now!

Dec 14, 2015By Matthias

Back in 2011, when the AppStream meeting in Nürnberg had just happened, I published the DEP-11 (Debian Extension Project 11) draft together with Michael Vogt and Julian Andres Klode, as an approach to implement AppStream in Debian. Back then, theRead more…

Dec 14, 2015Matthias 12 comments

What’s up in Tanglu?

Dec 11, 2015By Matthias

It is time again for another Tanglu blogpost (to be honest, this article is pretty much overdue 😉 ). I want to shine a spotlight on the work that’s done in Tanglu, be it ongoing or past work done forRead more…

Dec 11, 2015Matthias 3 comments

Deploying Limba packages: Ideas & current status

Sep 11, 2015By Matthias

The Limba project does not only have the goal to allow developers to deploy their applications directly on multiple Linux distributions while reducing duplication of shared resources, it should also make it easy for developers to build software for Limba.Read more…

Sep 11, 2015Matthias 3 comments
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