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Fade out legacy app branding

Description

Organizing, structuring, and quality controlling apps for GNOME is a long-standing issue within GNOME. In 2020 the board proposed the differentiation of Official GNOME Software and GNOME Circle projects. The definition of both categories was made official one month later with the board's approval of the Software Policy.

While this new structure already had a lot of positive impact in the last 1½ years, there are naturally a lot of open issues after such a huge change.

Goals

For apps not in GNOME Core/Development

Scope

People on charge & contact

Instructions to achieve the goals

Create MRs to

  • Remove GNOME from app name in
    • .desktop
    • .doap
    • Appstream
    • README
    • Help
  • Replace the author name if it is "The GNOME Project"
    • Appstream
  • Remove <category rdf:resource="http://api.gnome.org/doap-extensions... from .doap

Label for tracking the initiative

9. Initiative: Legacy app branding – all MRs

Text for the initiative issue in projects

This MR is part of an [initiative](GNOME/Initiatives#35) to fade out legacy app branding. Following the [Software Policy](https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/SoftwarePolicy), GNOME branding is reserved for official GNOME software (Core apps and Development tools.) You can find a summary in [this blog post](https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2022/06/08/apps-attempt-of-a-status-report/).

If you think that your app is a special case that needs an exception from the software policy, we would ask you to leave a comment about your app's case in GNOME/Initiatives#35.

/label ~"9. Initiative: Legacy app branding"

List of projects & tasks

Apps are only checked if they have a new release and are updated on Flathub (if applicable.)

Flathub: Search for "GNOME"
Flathub: Applications by "The GNOME Project"
Others

Resources

How can I help

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