Am 07.12.2013 14:06, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Am 06.12.2013 18:20, schrieb Alexander Rødseth: >> * Arch Linux has vanilla packages, so we should try to avoid including >> files that are hand-crafted by packagers > > If the files are needed, we include them. It's that simple. > >> * It clutters the repository > > One or two extra files per package is not a problem. > >> * Including .desktop files is basically the same as patching. And this >> quote: "Patching only occurs in extremely rare cases, to prevent >> severe breakage in the instance of version mismatches that may occur >> within a rolling release model." from >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux > > That is nonsense. A .desktop file is a simple configuration file. We > ship custom default configurations for our packages whenever necessary. > > More importantly, we should never compromise functionality for > ideological or political reasons - for me, that is part of Arch's > simplicity. > > In short, whenever upstream provides a correct .desktop file, we should > use it. Otherwise, we should provide our own (exactly like we do with > .service files).
I agree; let's not make things more complicated than needed. If a dev wants to maintain his own desktop file, that's fine. We should try to push these upstream though (similar to service files). -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
