Subject: bug#65469: [PATCH] * etc/emacsclient.desktop: Make Emacs default application for org-protocol

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:06:49 +0300

> From: Björn Bidar <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:59:41 +0300
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> From: Björn Bidar <[email-masked]>
> >> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked],
> >> [email-masked]
> >> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 02:04:52 +0300
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> >> 
> >> >> It applies to all operating system that use desktop environments
> >> >> that comply with XDG so for example also BSD.
> >> >
> >> > Only XDG-compliant desktops? nothing else?
> >> 
> >> Well only those that handle xdg desktop files specific uri type
> >> handlers e.g. Gnome, KDE, Xfce etc.
> >> 
> >> Not sure if there's something such as "fully XDG-compliant".
> >>
> >> My phrasing only intended to explain that in theory any operating
> >> system
> >> that uses xdg compliant desktop environments works with the change,
> >> not
> >> just GNU/QT/GTK/KDE/GNOME Linux.
> >
> > Thanks, but I'm looking for wording that we should put in NEWS.  How
> > would you categorize the systems which can support these desktop files
> > in words that will be understood by readers of NEWS?
> 
> What about Unix and Unix-like systems excluding macOS?

That sounds too general, I think.

Let me turn the table and ask you: where are those desktop files,
their format and contents described?  If there's some standard
document where they are documented, can you point me to that
document?