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Re: GUI X-FreeDesktop integration


From: Joost Kremers
Subject: Re: GUI X-FreeDesktop integration
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 09:53:15 +0200
User-agent: mu4e 1.5.12; emacs 27.2

On Fri, May 14 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> I compile Emacs from source, always from the latest release branch, so
>> currently emacs-27, and I get an emacs.desktop installed on my system when
>> doing make install. I even need to exclude it from my xstow.ini because I had
>> to customise it and I don't want it overwritten every time I pull the latest
>> commits and recompile Emacs.
>> 
>> So from my point of view, this is already working on Emacs 27...
>
> Does emacs.desktop work for emacsclient invocations as well?  If so,
> why did we add emacsclient.desktop on master?  (I know nothing about
> GNOME desktop and its use protocols.)

I don't know, and I don't have a clue how to go about testing that. AFAIK a
.desktop file allows you to put a launcher in the dock and in the Applications
menu of your GUI and that's it.

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Joost Kremers
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