On Thu 2008-05-08 10:06 , Ryan Sims wrote:
We needn't get bogged down in another "is this the ARCH WAY?!?!" conversation here;
I swear I don't want to.
I don't think it needs to be a policy decision. If neither Arch nor upstream want to deal with .desktop files (and they both seem to have their reasons), would it be possible to host some space somewhere that users could post their own? It wouldn't need to be Arch-hosted, perhaps this is a sf project waiting to happen; sort of a searchable repository for orphaned .desktop files? I'd be happy to go download .desktops from somewhere if they aren't already included.
This patch-phobia is getting ludicrous: if an application with a GUI, that users expect to be find in the menus, doesn't have a .desktop file, the maintainer should include it in the package AND submit it upstream. A repository for .desktop? Nonsense. -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino Please send personal email to themolok@gmail.com Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB