On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml@xxxxxxxxx> 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
