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A couple appdata changes

Dirk HOFFMANN requested to merge github/fork/bochecha/rename-appdata into master

Created by: bochecha

This renames the appdata file so it follows the same naming convention as the desktop file, the icons, the DBus service, …

In addition, this provides the old hamster.desktop name, so that software centers like GNOME Software or KDE Discover can know that hamster.desktop and org.gnome.Hamster.GUI.desktop are really the same application. This is useful in a few cases:

  • if your LTS distro provides an older version in its repository with the hamster.desktop name Flathub (soon?) provides a newer version with the name org.gnome.Hamster.GUI.desktop, users would be very confused to see 2 different entries called "Hamster" with the same icon

    with this change, GNOME Software would show a single app, but would allow users to choose from which source to install it

  • if users had submitted reviews in the ODRS for the older hamster.desktop, then e.g GNOME Software can know to display them for the newer org.gnome.Hamster.GUI.desktop

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