Subject: Re: bug#10977: 24.0.94; filename "emacs.desktop" collides with kde xy*.desktop logic

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:21:45 -0500

Thomas Rikl wrote:

> Can you please give the "~/.emacs.desktop" an other filename
> resp. extension or (default path)
> than ".desktop". It collides with some KDE mimic which i don't want to
> describe here. I think an extension of ".el" or default name like
> ".emacs-desktop.el" would be perfect. I mean the file created as a
> result of (desktop-save-mode 1)  in the startup-file.

You can customize desktop-base-file-name to whatever you like.
Without any details about whatever it is that you don't want to
describe, it's impossible to say if it is appropriate to change the
default (it probably isn't).