On Thursday 08 May 2008 15:58:51 bardo wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > > Corrado
