From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: 30228@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30228: desktop files embedding full path
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:00:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2q7393h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180129193946.GD17751@macbook41> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:39:46 +0200")
Hello,
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 03:58:51PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
>>
>> > the owncloud-client package includes an option to add a .desktop entry
>> > to $HOME/.configure/autostart/, which allows it to autostart when you
>> > log in to your desktop environment. Because the full path of the binary
>> > is in the .desktop file, it will always start THAT copy of
>> > owncloud-client, even if it is garbage collected.
>>
>> I think you shouldn’t copy manually the .desktop file to
>> ~/.configure/autostart, precisely because of that.
>>
>> Instead this should be done via in indirect GC root (as in “guix build
>> -r the-root owncloud-client”) or, ideally, by having it GuixSD-managed.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> I agree it shouldn't copy a .desktop file into .config/autostart/. In
> this case, the offending code is here¹, so there's not much that can be
> done about it. In mine I've changed the Exec line to
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/... so it'll work as expected. In this case
> the code generates a desktop file on the fly, so modifying the .desktop
> file shipping with applications wouldn't even help here.
>
>
> ¹ https://github.com/owncloud/client/blob/f326bf371d690f1929f7c5c06aebf53c7255daa6/src/common/utility_unix.cpp#L73
What do you think should be done on the Guix side? We could patch the
code above to not install the .desktop file in ~/.config, for instance.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-30 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-23 11:00 bug#30228: desktop files embedding full path Efraim Flashner
2018-01-24 14:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-29 19:39 ` Efraim Flashner
2018-01-30 11:00 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-02-18 19:03 ` Efraim Flashner
2018-02-18 20:06 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-18 20:29 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-02-20 7:08 ` Efraim Flashner
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