diff --git a/geany.spec b/geany.spec
index aa54062..f61af4a 100644
--- a/geany.spec
+++ b/geany.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 Name:      geany
 Version:   1.24.1
-Release:   4%{?dist}
+Release:   5%{?dist}
 Summary:   A fast and lightweight IDE using GTK2
 
 Group:     Development/Tools
@@ -103,6 +103,44 @@ install -p %{SOURCE1}  %{SOURCE2}  %{SOURCE3}  %{SOURCE4}  %{SOURCE5}  %{SOURCE6
            %{SOURCE19} %{SOURCE20} %{SOURCE21} %{SOURCE22}\
            $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/%{name}/tags/
 
+# Register as an application to be visible in the software center
+#
+# NOTE: It would be *awesome* if this file was maintained by the upstream
+# project, translated and installed into the right place during `make install`.
+#
+# See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/ for more details.
+#
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/appdata
+cat > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/appdata/%{name}.appdata.xml <<EOF
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright 2014 Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> -->
+<!--
+BugReportURL: https://sourceforge.net/p/geany/feature-requests/739/
+SentUpstream: 2014-09-17
+-->
+<application>
+  <id type="desktop">geany.desktop</id>
+  <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
+  <description>
+    <p>
+      Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment.
+      It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE.
+      Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a KDE or GNOME -
+      Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.
+    </p>
+  <!-- FIXME: Probably needs another paragraph or two -->
+  </description>
+  <url type="homepage">http://www.geany.org/</url>
+  <screenshots>
+    <screenshot type="default">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream/master/screenshots-extra/geany/a.png</screenshot>
+    <screenshot>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream/master/screenshots-extra/geany/b.png</screenshot>
+  </screenshots>
+  <!-- FIXME: change this to an upstream email address for spec updates
+  <updatecontact>someone_who_cares@upstream_project.org</updatecontact>
+   -->
+</application>
+EOF
+
 %post
 update-desktop-database &> /dev/null || :
 touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :
@@ -126,6 +164,7 @@ gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :
 %{_bindir}/%{name}
 %{_datadir}/%{name}
 %{_libdir}/%{name}
+%{_datadir}/appdata/%{name}.appdata.xml
 %{_datadir}/applications/%{name}.desktop
 %{_datadir}/icons/*/*/*/*.svg
 %{_datadir}/icons/*/*/*/*.png
@@ -137,6 +176,9 @@ gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/geany.pc
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Mar 26 2015 Richard Hughes <rhughes@redhat.com> - 1.24.1-5
+- Add an AppData file for the software center
+
 * Sat Feb 21 2015 Till Maas <opensource@till.name> - 1.24.1-4
 - Rebuilt for Fedora 23 Change
   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_all_packages_with_position-independent_code