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@xxxxxxxxx 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
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