[arch-dev-public] policy on desktop files?
We have lots of bug reports for missing desktop files. Is this something 'we' are doing, or is it something that we should be telling users to report upstream instead? Seems like it should be an upstream issue to me, even though the amount of work for adding a desktop file to one package may be small..if we are doing for all packages that need them ........
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:42 AM, eliott
We have lots of bug reports for missing desktop files. Is this something 'we' are doing, or is it something that we should be telling users to report upstream instead?
Seems like it should be an upstream issue to me, even though the amount of work for adding a desktop file to one package may be small..if we are doing for all packages that need them ........
Generally I tell people to report it upstream. If I'm feeling nice I might add one myself as well, but I do consider it an upstream issue.
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:42 AM, eliott
We have lots of bug reports for missing desktop files. Is this something 'we' are doing, or is it something that we should be telling users to report upstream instead?
Seems like it should be an upstream issue to me, even though the amount of work for adding a desktop file to one package may be small..if we are doing for all packages that need them ........
I always thought of this as one of the example "not our problem" issues. Any upstream package should be able to at least throw it in contrib/ of there source package if they wanted to. -Dan
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:42 AM, eliott
We have lots of bug reports for missing desktop files. Is this something 'we' are doing, or is it something that we should be telling users to report upstream instead?
Seems like it should be an upstream issue to me, even though the amount of work for adding a desktop file to one package may be small..if we are doing for all packages that need them ........
I personally never minded that much but it should be reported upstream. Though, if upstream says "no, I hate desktop files" what do we do then?
On Wed, 07 May 2008, eliott wrote:
We have lots of bug reports for missing desktop files. Is this something 'we' are doing, or is it something that we should be telling users to report upstream instead?
Seems like it should be an upstream issue to me, even though the amount of work for adding a desktop file to one package may be small..if we are doing for all packages that need them ........
We had this discussion a long time ago, but back then the freedesktop rules were neither that tight nor that much respected and desktops packages just started to build menus around desktop files. So we started to provide desktop files for those packages that didn't come with them. I still have an awful lot of packages with our homegrown desktop files. I generally support the idea to report it upstream most authors I asked where happy to accept my files, in fact no one ever rejected the idea. -T
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Aaron Griffin
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Dan McGee
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eliott
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Tobias Kieslich
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Travis Willard