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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<application>
+<id type="desktop">qelectrotech.desktop</id>
+<licence>CC0</licence>
+<description>
+<p>
+QElectroTech is a Qt4 application to design electric diagrams.
+It uses XML files for elements and diagrams, and includes both a diagram editor and an element editor.
+</p>
+</description>
+<url type="homepage">http://qelectrotech.org</url>
+<screenshots>
+<screenshot type="default">http://download.tuxfamily.org/qet/screens/qelectrotech5.png</screenshot>
+</screenshots>
+<!-- FIXME: change this to an upstream email address for spec updates -->
+<updatecontact>someone_who_cares@upstream_project.org</updatecontact>
+</application>
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