We're gearing up to launch curated banners on the Flathub home page! However, before we can do that there's one more blocker: Banners need a background color for each app, and many apps don't provide this metadata yet. This is why today we're expanding our MetaInfo quality guidelines and quality checks on the website; If you haven't yet, please add these colors to your app's MetaInfo file using the `` appstream tag, and read on to learn more about brand colors.
I love how much attention Flathub is putting into app metadata guidelines.
I see a lot of problems when looking for software in software centres. App icons and app screenshots that make the software appear like 2005 abandonware, gaudy non-standard theming in screenshots on app listings, incomplete descriptions, stupidly long app names that read like a whole sentence, etc.
In fairness, you go onto the Windows store and it’s the exact same. But my god, the Windows store is awful, so that’s not what we should have our eyes on.
I dislike Apple and don’t intend to own any of their products, but one thing they do well is forcing high quality listings on their app stores.
Flathub is sensibly trying to emulate that (though with gentle nudges as opposed to enforced terms), and I’m grateful they’re doing that work, because it’s important.
Do they? Whenever I search for something I don’t already know on the App Store on my iPad it takes a sharp downturn as soon as you’re part the first few apps. It’s like someone put together a collection of scamware on purpose.