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From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
	 Emacs Developer List <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	 Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA: New package 'xdg-appmenu'
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:47:47 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878r9jw33g.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <865y4n3jfw.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed,  06 Sep 2023 09:27:31 +0300")

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Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>>>> I've just written a new package and would like to publish it to on
>>>> NonGNU ELPA:
>>>>
>>>> XDG Appmenu allows you to run XDG desktop application right from your
>>>> Emacs.  To run an application, just do `M-x xdg-appmenu'.
>>
>> Thanks, this looks like a useful addition.  I have two questions:
>>
>> - How does this compare to the work made by Juri in Bug#63911?  Could
>>   the efforts be merged somehow, such that the end result ends up in
>>   Emacs, or does that not make sense?  (I'm copying in Juri too.)
>
> The patch in bug#63911 relies on the helper functions implemented
> in the core package emacs/lisp/xdg.el such as 'xdg-mime-apps'
> and 'xdg-desktop-read-file'.

Is it something new (in Emacs 29 or master branch) or did I just missed
these nice functions?

>
> The package https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-xdg-appmenu
> duplicates the work already done in xdg.el.

Taking a quick look, the answer is looks like yeah, sadly.

>
> However, it's hard to compare these two implementations.
> Maybe in case if something is missing in xdg.el
> it could be improved based on code from the package?

I don't think anything can be improved.  xdg.el contains a full-blown
desktop file parser.  And xdg-appmenu, just a hacky regexp based
implement that just looks for specific keys in a particular group.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-06 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-08  9:35 NonGNU ELPA: New package 'xdg-appmenu' Akib Azmain Turja
2023-07-09 18:07 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-07-09 19:39   ` Eshel Yaron
2023-07-10  1:59 ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-10  7:53   ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-07-19 16:23 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-09-05 18:31 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-09-05 20:11   ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-06  6:27     ` Juri Linkov
2023-09-06  7:13       ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-06 18:47       ` Akib Azmain Turja [this message]
2023-09-06 20:00         ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-06  7:42     ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-06 18:56     ` Akib Azmain Turja

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