On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
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 believe you, I just wanted to preempt one.
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.
Sorry, I didn't mean a repository like [core],[community] or such; I meant it in the more general sense of "a place where things are kept." They're small files, so a free wiki account somewhere could probably host them without breaking much of a sweat. One should still file bugreports, but a .desktop library would be a stopgap solution while the various devs work out policy. I'm not a dev, so I can't propose dev-oriented solutions, so I thought I'd propose a community-oriented solution. -- Ryan W Sims