Add AppData file

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Adding an AppData file will make Hedgewars look more slick in Software Centres: 
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application>
 <id type="desktop">hedgewars.desktop</id>
 <licence>CC0</licence>
 <description>
  <p>
   Hedgewars is a turn based strategy, artillery, action and comedy game, featuring the antics of pink hedgehogs with attitude as they battle from the depths of hell to the depths of space.
  </p>
  <P>
    As commander, it's your job to assemble your crack team of hedgehog soldiers and bring the war to your enemy.
  </p>
  <p>Game Features:</p>
  <ul>
   <li>Hilarious and strategic turn based combat for up to 8 players</li>
   <li>Both local and network multiplayer, with optional AI opponentsBattle on an infinite number of randomly generated maps, with over 22 environments</li>
   <li>Utilise 47 (and counting) devastating weapons!</li>
   <li>Including the piano strike and explosive robotic cake</li>
   <li>Play the game your way, with 18 different game modifiers, tweak almost every aspect of the match</li>
   <li>Customize your team, with over 120 costumes, 30 graves, 12 forts, 100s of flags and unique voice packs</li>
   <li>Huge battles with up to 48 hogs</li>
   <li>Play both singleplayer and multiplayer minigames</li>
   <li>Plugin your own custom maps, costumes, and other artwork</li>
  </ul>
 </description>
 <screenshots>
  <screenshot type="default" width="1152" height="864">http://www.hedgewars.org/files/fck_upload/image/screenshots/0_9_15-christmas.png</screenshot>
 </screenshots>
 <url type="homepage">http://http://hedgewars.org/</url>
 <updatecontact>hedgewars-dev@gna.org</updatecontact>
</application>

Original issue reported on code.google.com by f.alexan...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2013 at 11:05

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Thanks for writing the file. Where should be stored? Should it be installed or 
just kept in the sources?

Original comment by vittorio...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2013 at 11:13

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It should be installed to /usr/share/appdata/hedgewars.appdata.xml

Original comment by f.alexan...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2013 at 11:15

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Mm. Well, we don't really do installation on that level. Leave that to the 
packagers.
So I guess we can put it in:
http://hedgewars.googlecode.com/hg/share/hedgewars/Data/misc/
or
http://hedgewars.googlecode.com/hg/misc/

And someone could try to alert the distros and whatnot.

Original comment by kyberneticist@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2013 at 1:24

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The email address should be changed to one that doesn't require to be subscribed

Original comment by f.alexan...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2013 at 2:00

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Any news about this?

Original comment by nacho.r...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2013 at 10:44

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Hey all. It would be awesome to be able to feature hedgewars in gnome-software, 
but to do this I need a tarball release with the AppData file included and also 
some more high quality screenshots. Ideally these should be 16:9 aspect if 
possible.

Original comment by hughsi...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2013 at 10:46

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First of all, I fully support this issue. But it could be improved.

The proposed game description is a bit vague and does not fully describe 
Hedgewars. Someone who has never played Hedgewars or a game with similar rules 
will not know the point of this game from the description. Scorched3D is a 
turn-based artillery game, too but still very different. Also its 2D 
counterparts are not really comparable to Hedgewars. I think the word 
“artillery” does not hold true for Hedgewars, since you can drop weapons 
from rope and the UFO as well.

Quite some key features are missing. Also I don’t like the listing of featurs 
in bullet-point style.

A pretty good description (in my opinion) is on 
<http://www.lgdb.org/game/hedgewars> (I have written it), maybe you can 
incorporate some parts of it into the game description.

As for screenshots, I think this is a perfect task for the community. I have 
created a thead called “Post your screenshots!”: 
<http://www.hedgewars.org/node/5598>. Comments should go into the thread.

Original comment by almikes@aol.com on 14 Dec 2013 at 5:16

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It would be really cool if any of the devs could get this in, with the changes 
in the last comment...

Original comment by nacho.r...@gmail.com on 22 Jan 2014 at 4:58

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Hedgewars would be kicked out of the software center (only the GUI program) in 
Fedora 22 if it doesn’t include an AppData file. But it’s luckily a long 
way to Fedora 22, about a year or so.

Source:
<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-January/194251.html>

Original comment by almikes@aol.com on 23 Jan 2014 at 3:38

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Heh. If someone gives me a file I can toss it under misc in the repo.

But that's hardly the main problem with Fedora.
The main problem w/ Fedora is that they are still on 0.9.18…  ಠ_ಠ
Yes, a release from 2012, 2 releases ago.

Frankly, if they dropped the Hedgewars builds and forced players to do their 
own, we'd prob have fewer issues w/ Fedora players wondering where all the 
other players are...

Original comment by kyberneticist@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2014 at 4:43

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added in rc4ad9c76b542

I'm confident we will see an updated Hedgewars build on the software center now.

Original comment by vittorio...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2014 at 10:11

• Changed state: Fixed