On Sat, Mar 28, 2026 at 10:56:49AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > 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 >
I have no knowledge of such *.desktop files so would rather not be responsible for maintaining the file, especially if it has the problems that Eli describles.
