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docs-client-desktop: going out of maintenance #5145

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owncloud/docs-client-desktop is being archived and will no longer be maintained. Please update the documentation to remove or deprecate its pages and references.

Like the mobile client docs (#5144), this is a live Antora content source of this repo:

File Lines Reference
site.yml 31-36 docs-client-desktop.git content source — branches master, 7.1, 6.0, 5.3

Antora can still fetch from an archived repo, so the aggregated build will not break — but the desktop-client content is now frozen.

Unlanded content work discarded at archival

Worth recording, because these were approved and CI-green at close time — the diffs remain viewable on the closed PRs and can be re-applied to whatever supersedes this repo:

PR Base Page Fix
#758 / #757 master / 7.1 using.adoc Complete the folder three-dots menu
#754 / #753 master / 7.1 automatic_updater.adoc Correct auto-update platform support
#746 / #745 master / 7.1 troubleshooting.adoc Remove stale log-window keyboard shortcut
#744 / #743 master / 7.1 faq.adoc Remove stale 100-subdirectories sync-depth FAQ
#734 / #733 master / 7.1 conflicts.adoc Remove broken force-upload xref
#732 / #731 master / 7.1 installing.adoc Correct -s command-line flag description

Also closed unaddressed: 16 issues, several of them substantive content requests from client maintainers — #538 (drop Suffix VFS), #537 (update WinVFS docs), #536 (local trash bin), #532 (Windows VFS-off behaviour), #584 (selective sync moved to a dialog), #597 (ctrl+L / F12 hotkeys removed in 6.0), #540 (Linux repo signing-key change), #551 (.url files on Linux), #519 (Linux VFS file not downloaded), #423 (macOS sync badges), #539 (data-size precision), #241 (cmake option to disable the auto updater), plus #728, #724, #723, #722.

Suggested follow-ups:

  1. Decide whether the desktop component stays published at doc.owncloud.com from frozen content, or is removed from site.yml and redirected. If removed, add redirects for the indexed /client-desktop/ URLs.
  2. If it stays, trim the per-version branch list — no new version branches will ever appear.
  3. Re-apply the 12 approved fixes above wherever the desktop docs live next.
  4. Related archivals: docs-ui (docs-ui: going out of maintenance #5143), docs-client-android + docs-client-ios-app (docs-client-android + docs-client-ios-app: going out of maintenance #5144).

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