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Add new meta-attributes to stdenv to permit URLs for screenshots #101417

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Motivation for this change

If a meta-attribute for a Screenshot-URL were added to the package description, the search result could include a screenshot of the application in the result. There is no need to create new screenshots as http://screenshots.debian.net/ provides a public repository of screenshots already that could be reused.

I am aware that adding screenshots to the existing thousands of packages would be a major undertaking, but I think it would be a nice user experience enhancement and - of course - optional, since screenshots only make sense for graphical applications.

When the Screenshot-URL is provided for a package, the search result could fetch the image and show it alongside the package description.

The font packages could show a sample of the font instead.

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Two paragraphs were added to the Nixpks-manual, section Stdenv -> Meta-attributes to explain the two new
attributes ScreenshotThumb and ScreenshotLarge.

In the package games/pingus the two attributes were added as an example.

The Nixpkgs-manual was rebuild to check correctness.

  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
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  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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Discussed in NixOS/nixos-search#211

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jtojnar commented Oct 23, 2020

An alternative approach would be relying on the appstream data (#15932), cc @matthewbauer.

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Please squash the commits together.

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I can't take it from here. The other (#15932) issue is quite complex, involves many aspects. I cannot even identify all the different parts that are involved.
Only one thing is for sure: information in the stdenv and the associated appstream data (if available) must be synchronized.
Ideally, one should "rule" over the other to have one authoritative source of truth.

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garbas commented Dec 2, 2020

@matthewbauer is there any timeline on #15932? That RFC is quite old, but I can see it is still in your radar. We could serve AppStream XML via search if you want.

Would you be ok if @StefanSchroeder continues with this new meta-attributes? I'm assuming that we will be doing some merging of some sort when producing this XML.

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https://discourse.nixos.org/t/brainstorming-generating-appstream-metadata/19273/1

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