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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:12:17 -0500
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    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?