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

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 13:05:28 +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.")

What does ‘launching’ mean here?  Is ‘launching an application’
functionally the same as running it (with 'fork'+'exec' or 'system' or
whatever)?  Does it have extra bells and whistles?

It's a super vague word, e.g. when Xiden has been announced on guix-
devel, one of the words that kept being repeated was 'launcher', but it
wasn't defined anywhere in its practically empty manual. (Nowadays
there's actually a manual and it does define launchers, but it didn't
use to.) 

Greetings,
Maxime.