From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .desktop file for emacs
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:41:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712080141.lB81fnIm005167@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1J06Dp-0000C0-V7@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:12:17 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I am not sure I understand your question. Let me restate what I was
> trying to say: a file called emacs.desktop would be installed in
> /usr/share/applications.
> It seems that files in /usr/share/applications are parsed and used to
> fill in the menus that appear at the top of the desktop in Gnome.
>
> Now that I understand the idea, it sounds like a good thing to do.
> Would someone like to implement this?
I added an emacs.desktop file.
Reviewing for correctness would be greatly appreciated as would figuring
out how to install it correctly. Once everything works right we can
do the same on the 22.2 branch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-08 1:41 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
[not found] ` <E1IzkSJ-0005ZR-Mv@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <200712050447.lB54lJFP014573@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu>
2007-12-06 2:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-08 1:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
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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