[Xastir] Fwd: [Bug 999356] [NEW] xastir is missing a .desktop file

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 06:47:40PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <davidf4 at mindspring.com> flavor, containing:
> <begin personal viewpoint that may or may not reflect the authors of Xastir>
> 
> If Xastir was intended to be distributed as a binary then I could see the
> value of some sort of integration file.  But it is only distributed as
> source code unless someone builds and distributes a binary independent of
> the CSV site.
> 
> Any binary distributions of Xastir are therefore the responsibility of the
> person who built and distributed it, not the CVS source tree.
> 
> <end of personal viewpoint>

This also happens to be the position of most of the people who work on the 
code.  

Binary packages are the reponsibility of those bundling them.  At the moment,
none of the Xastir developers is maintaining any binary packages.  As far
as I can tell, nobody who has created Debian packages (for example) is 
maintaining them, either --- last I checked, the Debian/Ubuntu package for 
Xastir was still stuck at 1.9.4, which is years out of date.

On the other hand, if someone were to make a useful .desktop file that 
could safely be distributed with source code and that would be helpful for
package maintainers, and shared it on this group for everyone's benefit, 
one of us would surely add it to the repository and make it part of the 
source.  All development of Xastir happens because people happen to do work
that needs to be done as volunteer effort, and share it with the community.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org
> [mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Suprin
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 18:00
> 
> Pardon my late jumping in on this topic, but my understanding was the
> .desktop file is supposed to be desktop agnostic. Unity, KDE, and gnome all
> honor them.  I have not checked on other desktops.

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