Am Mon, 6 Dec 2010 21:02:00 -0500 schrieb Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com>:
I might be kind of crazy here, but maybe desktop files and icons are things that should be distributed from upstream. So maintainers should work to get those included like a patch or whatnot.
I generally agree, but not every upstream does include desktop files and it's not possible for packages which aren't maintained by upstream anymore. We already had this discussion on the mailing lists. So this should be handled quite flexible in AUR as well as in the repos. So if upstream doesn't provide such files or until upstream will provide such files, such files should be included into the downstream packages. And there are upstream devs who disagree and find that those files should be provided by downstream. You won't get the ideal in this point. Heiko