Re: .desktop file for emacs

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> 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