On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:23:02 +0100, Jan Synacek wrote: > Which one do you use? Having both is confusing, as noted in [1], so I'm > planning to remove one of them. What do you think should be the default? > Please, write what *you* think/use, not what you guess that other people > might want to use. > > For me, it's emacs.desktop, since clicking the desktop icon is then > simply consitent with the rest of the icons. The emacsclient behavior is > just weird. > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175969
What may be considered confusing at first (and breaks GNOME Shell's New Window feature, too), compared with the normal emacs.desktop file, the emacsclient.desktop file always starts the Emacs server in the background, if not running already. Which means you can access the same buffers from within any Emacs client window. That's a good feature actually. I would have found it more natural to start emacsclient with -c --alternate-editor="emacs", which would only start normal Emacs, if no server is running already. No daemon => no confusion? This could be done in a single emacs.desktop file, but oh well, it may not make all Emacs users happy. Perhaps the requester of that feature can tell more usage scenarios: -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/665362 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
