From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
Cc: 35594@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35594: GNOME: Application icons are not displayed immediately after installation
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:14:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6vyz20u.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eelaz65h.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:44:58 -0500")
Hello,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
> After asking in the #gnome channel on freenode, the problem is likely
> caused by GNOME Shell using inotify to watch the $XDG_DATA_DIRS
> referenced $HOME/.guix-profile/share/applications directory. The
> problem is that the inode of such directory will never change, as it
> points to the current profile under /gnu/store:
>
> $ ls -id $HOME/.guix-profile/share/applications
> 72653730 /home/maxim/.guix-profile/share/applications/
> maxim@hurd ~/src/guix$ realpath $HOME/.guix-profile/share/applications
> /gnu/store/ph6a7fy735w5nycmf3za77m6v3g0r7xb-profile/share/applications
> maxim@hurd ~/src/guix$ ls -id /gnu/store/ph6a7fy735w5nycmf3za77m6v3g0r7xb-profile/share/applications
> 72653730 /gnu/store/ph6a7fy735w5nycmf3za77m6v3g0r7xb-profile/share/applications/
>
> Any applications making use of inotify to discover changes (to plugins,
> for example) is at risk of having the same problem in Guix.
>
> I don't currently have an idea of how we can fix this.
Watching of the directory is done via Glib's GAppInfoMonitor
(gpio/gdesktopappinfo.c). A suggested idea from #gnome-shell would be
to patch its desktop_file_dir_init() procedure with Guix-specifics; I
don't know *how* yet. The folks in #gtk may provide some clues.
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-03 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-05 23:19 bug#35594: GNOME: Application icons are not displayed immediately after installation sirgazil
2019-05-06 2:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-05-06 11:34 ` sirgazil
2020-11-03 17:44 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-03 19:14 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2020-11-03 22:33 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-04 16:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
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