> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:23:54 +0100 > From: Preuße, Hilmar <[email protected]> > > in Debian we have a info.desktop file [1] we provide in the Debian > "info" package. Are you interested in taking it over to your repository?
Thanks for the offer. As someone who has a long and sad experience of dealing with similar desktop files in Emacs, my advice to the Texinfo maintainers is to respectfully decline the offer. Bitter experience has taught me that these desktop files should be maintained by downstream distros which have a much better understanding of the needs and the environment of those desktops. Keeping these files in the upstream repository means frequent changes whose sole motivation is that this or that desktop changes something -- reasons that are utterly unrelated to Texinfo per se, and sometimes conflicting between different desktops. HTH
