From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .desktop file for emacs
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:32:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18261.650.511105.208060@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712040715.lB47FVGB024963@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu>
>>>>> On Mon, 03 Dec 2007, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> It seems that the current practice is for applications to provide a
> .desktop file that is used to show an icon associated+text with an
> application in menus or on the desktop (and maybe more).
> Shouldn't emacs provide such a file? Can someone that understands how
> this is supposed to work please add one to CVS ?
As a starting point, you may look at the ones that Gentoo is using for
Emacs and emacsclient:
<http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/emacs/browser/emacs-extra/emacs-desktop>
The specification of the file format is here:
<http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/>
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 7:15 .desktop file for emacs Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-04 7:32 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
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[not found] ` <200712050447.lB54lJFP014573@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu>
2007-12-06 2:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-08 1:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-08 8:36 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-12-08 21:38 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-09 1:53 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-09 10:56 ` Jan Djärv
2007-12-09 17:24 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-08 11:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-09 12:37 ` Richard Stallman
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