[Bug 1081504] Re: Extras apps do not use the provided icon

[David Planella]

Al 03/12/12 13:34, En/na Michael Nelson ha escrit:
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:19 PM, David Planella
> <david.planella at ubuntu.com>wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> So currently you'll need to publish the app in devportal for all the
>>> distroseries for which the extra information should be present (ie. all
>> the
>>> series for which it is published in extras). We could and probably should
>>> treat apps imported from sca as special in this regard, so that if an app
>>> is imported from sca, the extra resources (icons/screenshots etc) will be
>>> used by default if there are non present from the apt-cache or
>>> app-install-data. I'll leave that for achuni to decide.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps!
>>>
>>> [1]
>>>
>> http://software-center.ubuntu.com/api/2.0/applications/en/ubuntu/precise/i386/
>>>
>>
>> I believe that the problem is that the devportal does not allow
>> re-publishing apps. That is, if an application is in Published state, it
>> cannot be modified, as far as I can tell.
>>
>> I assume that's why all those apps were published through the devportal
>> in one release, and subsequently through extras directly.
> 
> 
>> So I've got two questions:
>>
>> - Shall I open a separate bug for that?
>>
> 
> No, I left this one confirmed so that Anthony could decide what he wanted
> done. If the workflow that you guys use is to publish via myaps, then later
> just update for subsequent series (ie. no need to go through review cycle
> etc.), then it sounds like reviewers should be able to tweak the published
> distroseries at any time - that should be simple enough? But let's see what
> achuni thinks.
> 

Yeah, implementing the ability to tweak the series would work for Open
Source reviewers. But I assume that this issue is not present for
commercial apps. Could we not just adopt the same (or similar) approach
than the commercial apps queue to ensure app uploads in new releases
have got the metadata?

In any case, here's a suggestion from a related bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/developer-portal/+bug/1006880/comments/0

> 
>> - Would it be possible to manually fix the metadata if the bug proves to
>> be too complex to fix?
>>
> 
> Yep, that should also be simple - achuni should be able to do that for you
> too (he has admin access).
> 

Sounds great, thanks!

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Title:
  Extras apps do not use the provided icon

Status in Ubuntu web catalog:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This is a follow-up from bug 1010655, as one of the issues pointed out
  there is still not fixed.

  For apps published in extras.ubuntu.com, the icon provided by the
  developer seems not to be used, which causes Software Center to use a
  generic icon for the app upon installation.

  Here's an example of a recent upload (see the generic icon used instead of the 64px one provided [1]):
  https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/postman-image-uploader/

  [1] https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/apps/1612/

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