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CI and downstream packagers have been using the Meson build for a while now, and we checked that it's idempotent to the Autotools build. Having two build systems in tree doesn't make maintaining and releasing GTK any easier, even if it's the stable/frozen branch.
To make gnome-shell use the desktop file and icon for this example while running it uninstalled, do the following: mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications sed -e "s#@bindir@#$PWD#" exampleapp.desktop \ > ~/.local/share/applications/lt-exampleapp.desktop mkdir -p ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps cp exampleapp.png ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps