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diff --git a/desktop/AppStream/README b/desktop/AppStream/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..420a628a03 --- /dev/null +++ b/desktop/AppStream/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +AppStream is a cross-distribution effort for enhancing the way we +interact with the software repositories provided by Linux distributions +by standardizing software component metadata. +It provides the foundation to build software-center applications, +by providing metadata necessary for an application-centric view on +package repositories. AppStream additionally provides specifications for +things like an unified software metadata database, screenshot services +and various other things needed to create user-friendly +application-centers for (Linux) distributions. |