On 01.04.2024 15:19, Carlos E. R. wrote:
cer@Telcontar:~> ls /usr/share/metainfo/com.github.louis77.tuner ls: cannot access '/usr/share/metainfo/com.github.louis77.tuner': No such file or directory cer@Telcontar:~> ls /usr/share/metainfo/ | grep tuner com.github.louis77.tuner.appdata.xml cer@Telcontar:~>
/usr/share/metainfo contains metadata for the installed applications. The catalog of available applications is in /var/cache/swcatalog (or /var/cache/app-info in Leap).
Interesting.
I wonder if the information on that file can be used to create the start menu on desktops.
No.
Is there a way to read that file before installing the package, having only <appstream://com.github.louis77.tuner>?
Sure. Use any program that supports AppStream. Discover, GNOME Software, may be there are some others. Use CLI tools like appstreamcli. Or just read the metadata source directly - look for a file *-appdata.xml.gz in any repository or in /var/cache/zypp.