Packaging Application Metadata

[Mark Fortner]

I've been wondering if there were any plans to standardize packaging
metadata?  It strikes me that we should be able to specify dock and desktop
icons, splashscreens, application names, OS-specific packaging properties
(like the ones used in Mac OS X) and dependencies in a single place that
can be used by both an application packaging tool, and on application
startup.  The JNLP file has most of these elements already and could serve
as a useful starting point.

Any thoughts?

Mark