Yeah, we can imagine several ways of translating descriptions of services, and .desktop files would be a convenient solution. But that's really beyond the scope of services-admin... You may want to discuss that on the Upstart mailing list, for a start. However, we have to comply with the Linux Standard Base in all cases, so that solution can only be an option for packages, and we must keep supporting the old way. Definitely not a trivial work - I think we're going to need the static list for a long time.
Yeah, we can imagine several ways of translating descriptions of services, and .desktop files would be a convenient solution. But that's really beyond the scope of services-admin... You may want to discuss that on the Upstart mailing list, for a start. However, we have to comply with the Linux Standard Base in all cases, so that solution can only be an option for packages, and we must keep supporting the old way. Definitely not a trivial work - I think we're going to need the static list for a long time.