Am 07.12.2013 14:06, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
Am 06.12.2013 18:20, schrieb Alexander Rødseth:
* Arch Linux has vanilla packages, so we should try to avoid including files that are hand-crafted by packagers
If the files are needed, we include them. It's that simple.
* It clutters the repository
One or two extra files per package is not a problem.
* Including .desktop files is basically the same as patching. And this quote: "Patching only occurs in extremely rare cases, to prevent severe breakage in the instance of version mismatches that may occur within a rolling release model." from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux
That is nonsense. A .desktop file is a simple configuration file. We ship custom default configurations for our packages whenever necessary.
More importantly, we should never compromise functionality for ideological or political reasons - for me, that is part of Arch's simplicity.
In short, whenever upstream provides a correct .desktop file, we should use it. Otherwise, we should provide our own (exactly like we do with .service files).
I agree; let's not make things more complicated than needed. If a dev wants to maintain his own desktop file, that's fine. We should try to push these upstream though (similar to service files). -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com