Quality guidelines | Flathub Documentation
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The following guidelines are not required for submission to Flathub, but are best practices we recommend and consider for curation and promotion. These guidelines are designed to help your app and Flathub itself appear in the best light to users—they may change over time based on developer and user feedback.

I do think that as a store it should have some guidelines on quality, but not of the application icon’s styling

  • moreeni@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    My opinion is pretty much the same. The guidelines for naming and screenshot are great, and it would have been good if they were applied in all stores, not just FlatHub. The icon guidelines, on the other hand, are too much, IMO.

  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    Icon design and name guidelines are too strict. Many apps already on the store break them.

    • E.g. the 20 characters limit is to small for even two long words.
    • Or not allowing PascalCase, disallows many app names like LibreOffice.

    And app icons have to be “In line with contemporary styles”, which is currently flat and simple design. Contemporary styles change all the time. If an app wants to look old, why not let them?

    https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/appdata-guidelines/quality-guidelines/#app-icon

    Someone on the internet with their opinion on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYqYpbMY9vE

    Edit: Generally these guidelines are good and will improve the browsing experience on flathub. Hopefully they’ll loosen some of those icon and naming restrictions.