Re: GUI X-FreeDesktop integration

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 23:18:25 -0400
> From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
> 
> I found myself today using GUI emacs 27.1, and was surprised that it
> wasn't at all integrated with the (debian) linux desktop. It doesn't
> seem like a big deal to make part of a standard install, but in the
> context of 'trying to make emacs easier' it would go a long way. I never
> know when I post on this list whether something has already been either
> done or flat-out rejected sometime in the past, oh, 30 years?, but
> here's a simple two-step proposal to accomplish the type of integration
> I think *ALL* newcomers would expect when installing GUI emacs (ie. when
> one selects file(s) in a file manager, they are opened in Emacs).
> 
> Step 1: New file: /usr/share/applications/emacsclient.desktop

The master branch has etc/emacsclient.desktop, which looks similar to
what you want.  Can you try that and provide feedback?  If that file
is OK, then Emacs 28 will have this bundled, and the problem is
solved.

Thanks.