- <id/>
For fonts, the %{id}
is the same name as the installed font file.
- <metadata_licence/>
- <name/>
Set a name for your font.
- <summary/>
A short description of the font described in this metainfo file.
- <description/>
Add a long description of your font. Some rules apply (will soon be split out to a "description guidelines" section).
Do not assume the format is HTML. Only paragraph, ordered list and unordered list are supported at this time.
- <screenshots/>
A screenshot presents your font to the outside world, and could be seen by hundreds or thousands of people.
The <screenshots/>
tag contains multiple <screenshot/>
childrens, where at least one of them must have the property type="default"
to indicate the application's primary screenshot. Additionally, the <screenshot/>
tags should define the width and height of the referenced screenshot as properties. The value of these tags is a direct URL to a screenshot uploaded to a public location on the web.
- <url/>
This is a recommended tag for links of type
homepage
. Links of type
homepage
should be a link to the upstream homepage for the application. See See
Section 2.1, “Generic Component” for a description of this tag.
- <provides/>
You can add one or more children of type <font/>
to make the font filenames and names known to the system. If this tag is not present, the name
and id
tag values will be used by the distribution's Appstream-generator to recreate this tag, so it's not required to add it.
- <font_classifier/>
Define a description of the font face to caption it when compared against other fonts in the same family.
Some commonly used values are, for example:
Mono
Mono Extra Light
Outline
Sans
Serif
Condensed
...
- <font_parent/>
The name of the font package this particular font is part of. This is a required tag.