From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
To: John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com>
Cc: 50789@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50789: syncthing-gtk creates autostart file with wrong bin
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 23:23:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ae4d2bfcce16f79680321817ac9e55a380dd0bd.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi,
Am Montag, den 27.09.2021, 19:04 +0000 schrieb John Kehayias:
> [...]
>
> But back to the matter at hand. Medium to long-term I support better
> Guix services for autostart, but that doesn't address the problem of
> having packages run as intended by upstream, at least with reasonable
> expectations. I think this is expected and reasonable behavior, that
> a program can create a proper .desktop file in Guix.
Unless you are running a dedicated desktop file/autostart editor like
alacarte or whatever gnome-tweaks has going for it, writing to
.config/autostart is not reasonable behaviour.
> Looking at another non-Guix system, the autostart files I have
> in ~/.confg/autostart mostly (syncthing-gtk being the main
> exception) use just
>
> Exec=program-name
The "full path" desktop files used in Guix do have some advantages.
Also, on other distros when using stuff like systemd in a similar
manner to shepherd, you have full paths again.
> I see this mostly true for /etc/xdg/autostart as well (non-Guix
> system). So I think this is an easy and typical behavior we can
> implement. In this case patching syncthing-gtk to produce
> Exec=syncthing-gtk. Perhaps upstream would consider it as well,
> unless they have good reason for a full path here, as opposed to
> other programs. (Upstream is a bit quiet in activity though.)
>
> What do we think?
I think upstream as good reasons to use full paths, e.g. to prevent the
wrong syncthing from being used when there are two in /usr and
/usr/local. Were Guix to police upstream on this matter, the decision
would clearly be to make this feature optional at the click of a button
– and not one that annoyingly pops up if Icecat is not your default
browser, if you understand what I'm trying to say.
Regards
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-27 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-24 21:33 bug#50789: syncthing-gtk creates autostart file with wrong bin John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-24 22:55 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-09-24 23:15 ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-25 0:45 ` John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-25 7:02 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-09-27 19:04 ` John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-27 21:23 ` Liliana Marie Prikler [this message]
2021-09-30 19:29 ` John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-30 20:00 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-09-30 20:13 ` John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-10-01 7:44 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-05 19:31 ` John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-01-05 21:13 ` Leo Famulari
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