From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Luther Thompson <lutheroto@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#35064: gnome-desktop-service-type does not work
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:17:08 -0400
Message-ID: <20190331221708.2513ede6@gmail.com>
References: <20190331185326.37e41b75@gmail.com>
	<alpine.DEB.2.20.1903312028310.30127@marsh.hcoop.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-path: <bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60299)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1hAmWR-0006R3-Is
	for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:18:04 -0400
Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1hAmWQ-0008Gm-H9
	for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:18:03 -0400
Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53397)
	by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16)
	(Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>)
	id 1hAmWQ-0008GT-5x
	for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:18:02 -0400
Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2)
	(envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1hAmWP-0003fU-Tj
	for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:18:01 -0400
Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <handler.35064.D35064.155408504514052@debbugs.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1903312028310.30127@marsh.hcoop.net>
List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/bug-guix>,
	<mailto:bug-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/>
List-Post: <mailto:bug-guix@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:bug-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guix>,
	<mailto:bug-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
Sender: "bug-Guix" <bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
Cc: 35064-done@debbugs.gnu.org

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:35:42 -0400 (EDT)
Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Mar 2019, Luther Thompson wrote:
> 
> > When doing a reconfigure, I got this message:
> >
> > /home/luther/config.scm:60:10: warning: 'gnome-desktop-service' is
> > deprecated, use 'gnome-desktop-service-type' instead
> >
> > So I changed (gnome-desktop-service) to
> > (gnome-desktop-service-type) and got this error:
> >
> > guix system: error: failed to load 'config.scm':
> > /home/luther/config.scm:60:10: Wrong type to apply: #<service-type
> > gnome-desktop 1bc6280>  
> 
> Luther,
> 
> What you need here is (service gnome-desktop-service-type). The
> service function will turn the service-type into a service object
> which is what you need in this context.
> 
> The documentation for service can be found in the manual 
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Service-Reference.html#Service-Reference>. 
> In particular, note that in addition to the service-type service can
> take a value (often the configuration for the service). Since 
> gnome-desktop-service-type has a default value, the value can be
> omitted.

Thank you. That seems to work so far.

Luther