AEX-2: Peers metadata about aexs HOT 6 CLOSED

Does not makes sense to introduce and use a standard meant for Web Apps into a standard that can be used even by desktop apps.
If more fields are necessary please provide a list of them with a rationale behind each and we can discuss it here or in the forums.

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Does not makes sense to introduce and use a standard meant for Web Apps into a standard that can be used even by desktop apps.

I see your point, Web App Manifests has some properties that are incompatible in case of the native desktop apps like display: "browser", scope, serviceworker, start_utl. But Web Manifests technically can handle that:

Note also that implementations are free to ignore any member they do not recognize or support. (https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/#extensibility)

If more fields are necessary please provide a list of them with a rationale behind each and we can discuss it here or in the forums.

Let's add "icon" field. Icons are helpful because they make possible to recognize app faster than by reading its name, also most of the applications around us using them so it should be more user-friendly. In the worse case, we can communicate with aepp only by established connection, so it should be possible to pass an icon through it. Should we make possible to send icon in the response of wallet.request.connect as a base64-encoded string?

For the most popular use cases, this behavior looks strange. So I propose to describe metadata retrieving depending on the environment. Also, to suggest behavior explained above and "name" field to use in a case if none of the described cases is available.

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Metadata in AEX-2 overlaps with #56, I think we should define it separately.

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yes i guess but this can be done later too when that aex is final and should not be breaking change for aex-2.
or let me know if you have an estimate on its completion and we can try to release both together?

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@j28 what do you think about it?

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we should use the metadata standard from the aex draft.

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