From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .desktop file for emacs Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:32:26 +0100 Message-ID: <18261.650.511105.208060@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <200712040715.lB47FVGB024963@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196753586 10942 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2007 07:33:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:33:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 04 08:33:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IzSHI-0003kK-2f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:33:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzSH1-0000Zr-AW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:32:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzSGh-0000Rk-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:32:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzSGd-0000QN-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:32:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzSGd-0000QJ-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:32:31 -0500 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IzSGc-0003fB-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:32:30 -0500 Original-Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.75]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.1/8.13.4) with ESMTP id lB47WQ3b007592; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:32:26 +0100 Original-Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lB47WQ05013033; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:32:26 +0100 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id lB47WQPD013028; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:32:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200712040715.lB47FVGB024963@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.5-504 under Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84635 Archived-At: >>>>> 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: The specification of the file format is here: Ulrich