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Re: GUI X-FreeDesktop integration
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Yuri Khan |
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Re: GUI X-FreeDesktop integration |
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Fri, 14 May 2021 18:29:34 +0700 |
On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 14:55, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Fri, May 14 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> > 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.)
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> 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.
No, that’s not (only) it. A .desktop file:
* Puts a launcher in the Applications menu so you can launch the application.
* Optionally, associates an application with a set of MIME types so
you can open documents with that application from your file manager,
mail client, and other applications.
* Optionally, associates an application with an URL scheme so you can
open URLs in that application.
A simple .desktop file only has a single command line defined. It is
also possible to define multiple actions with different command lines
and supporting launcher GUIs will expose those actions to the user,
but etc/emacs.desktop in current master does not use this capability.
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-1.1.html