[gedit-list] Trying 2.25.2 on ubuntu

[Doug McNutt <douglist macnauchtan com>]

I'm interested in learning about gedit in a whole lot more detail. In 
fact I want to experiment with parts of the source. But I need a 
reliable version that I can use for everyday things.

So. . . .

I downloaded 2.25.2 and set it up in a directory in my home folder. 
./config and make seemed to go just fine, though the text output 
seemed excessive, and I got a gedit executable. With a few worries 
about what executing it might do to all of those .gedit support files 
in my home directory I shut down ubuntu's gedit and tried to execute 
from the directory where the new executable appeared:

< from terminal>
Mars> ./gedit ~/ScratchPad  &  # That's a file I use with gedit all day long.

(gedit:18106): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Could not load desktop file 
'/usr/local/share/applications/gedit.desktop': No such file or 
directory
Segmentation fault
</from terminal>

The only thing in that directory is:
/usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

I need some suggestions as to just how to come up with a version of 
gedit for testing while I continue to use a reliable version for 
working on it and a whole bunch of other things. I really don't want 
to sudo make install and wonder how to recover.

Version 2.24.2 is installed in /usr/bin/.  Does it use a 
gedit.desktop file? If so where is it?

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