Subject: bug#10977: detail from .xession-errors concerning .desktop extension of ~./emacs.desktop

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:31:26 -0500

>> But in the future it probably would be more consistent with the rest of
>> Emacs if desktop used user-emacs-directory in preference to the home
>> directory, if no desktop-file already exists in the home directory.
> I agree, FWIW.

That's already the case at least for searching:

   (defcustom desktop-path (list "." user-emacs-directory "~")

-- Stefan