Re: NonGNU ELPA: New package 'xdg-appmenu'

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
>
>> Ping? (2)
>>
>> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
>>
>>> I've just written a new package and would like to publish it to on
>>> NonGNU ELPA:
>>>
>>> XDG Appmenu allows you to run XDG desktop application right from your
>>> Emacs.  To run an application, just do `M-x xdg-appmenu'.
>
> Thanks, this looks like a useful addition.  I have two questions:
>
> - How does this compare to the work made by Juri in Bug#63911?  Could
>   the efforts be merged somehow, such that the end result ends up in
>   Emacs, or does that not make sense?  (I'm copying in Juri too.)
>

Taking a quick look at Bug#63911, IIUC that ticket is about adding the
"Open with" option in Dired like the GUI file managers, right?  On the
other hand, my package launches an app, without any file, like you'd do
from the application menu (or whatever term, I don't know) of GNOME or
KDE.

> - Do you think that it might make sense to add it to GNU ELPA instead?
>   I see that you're the only author, so we would only need a copyright
>   assignment from you.
>

I took a look at xdg.el, and seems like it already has everything
needed.  I think it might make it sense to put it directly in xdg.el, it
would be a small addition I think, just the command and one or two
helper function.

> In case you're interested, there is also Bug#18132 where we have
> previously discussed XDG and mailcap in relation to Dired.
>
>>> From 32b80f3bc0e4c35a74cc7027017676849ab311bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
>>> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2023 15:24:20 +0600
>>> Subject: [PATCH] * elpa-packages (xdg-appmenu): New package
>>>
>>> ---
>>>  elpa-packages | 2 ++
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/elpa-packages b/elpa-packages
>>> index 0610724..ef0af0c 100644
>>> --- a/elpa-packages
>>> +++ b/elpa-packages
>>> @@ -784,6 +784,8 @@
>>>   (xah-fly-keys             :url "https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys";
>>>    :ignored-files ("*.png"))
>>>
>>> + (xdg-appmenu           :url "https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-xdg-appmenu";)
>>> +
>>>   (xkcd                     :url "https://github.com/vibhavp/emacs-xkcd";
>>>    :readme "README.org"
>>>    :ignored-files ("LICENSE" ".travis.yml" "images"))
>>> --
>>> 2.40.1
>

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