[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] policy on desktop files?

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Thursday 08 May 2008 15:58:51 bardo wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, i wanted to note that there is
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Project maintained by bardo
> > a TU, which mentions absolutely nothing about upstream.
> > Instead it says "I (bardo) will write/modify the necessary files and
> > notify the corresponding maintainers so they can be added to the
> > packages." Additionally there are links to the bug tracker.
> > I have no idea if bardo submitts them upstream as well but i doubt it.
>
> At the moment I don't. When I announced the project it got a good
> reaction, so I carried on with it, but after a while creating and
> providing desktop files through the bug tracker I started receiving
> the "upstream problem" answer. This has become pretty frequent, so
> lately I haven't been doing very much on the Arch side. The few
> developers I tried to contact didn't do anything, so I suppose there's
> little to no interest from them.
>
> The whole thing has started to become more frustrating than anything,
> so at the moment I'm not working on it anymore.

IMHO, even though I'm aggresively against patching, I don't consider 
the .desktop files as patches. They are some extra, *non-code* files, that is 
fair for the distro to provide (like other configuration files). I don't 
really blame the app developers that don't include them upstream. 


Dimitris


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