Subject: Re: [bug#53797] [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-app-launcher.

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 13:10:30 +0100

Demis Balbach schreef op za 05-02-2022 om 12:20 [+0100]:
> +       "app-launcher defines the app-launcher-run-app command which uses Emacs
> +standard completion feature to select an application installed on your machine
> +and launch it.")

Looking at the source code, it appears to assume .desktop files,
so it doesn't work for arbitrary applications.

Additionally, the source code days 'Linux' .desktop applications
even though .desktop is not Linux-specific: unless something weird
is going on, they can be and are used on GNU/Hurd and Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD.

The latter is not a problem with the package definition though, just
something I noticed.

Greetings,
Maxime.