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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
Cc: 65469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, yantar92 <at> posteo.net, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#65469: [PATCH] * etc/emacsclient.desktop: Make Emacs default application for org-protocol
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:06:49 +0300

> From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
> Cc: yantar92 <at> posteo.net,  65469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  stefankangas <at> gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:59:41 +0300
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
> >> Cc: yantar92 <at> posteo.net, 65469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
> >> stefankangas <at> gmail.com
> >> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 02:04:52 +0300
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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?

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