Subject: bug#1171: #1171 - ns-version-string - Emacs bug report logs

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:02:51 -0400

Yavor Doganov wrote:

>> nextstep/GNUstep/Emacs.base/Resources/Emacs.desktop
>
> IMHO this is entirely useless for GNUstep, because:
[...]
> 2) Even in the rare cases when they do, the .desktop files must be in
>    $(datadir)/applications (or ~/.local/share/applications) in order
>    to be parsed, loaded and to show up in the menus.

The top-level Makefile.in has a rule (install-etc) which installs the
file etc/emacs.desktop in the right place. This could be
copied/adapted for the GNUstep version.