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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: IBus and different GTK versions
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:28:58 +0200
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宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> It seems that GTK3 only looks for
>> ‘$libdir/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules.cache’ and GTK2 only looks for
>> ‘$libdir/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules.cache’ by default, where ‘$libdir’ is
>> ‘$out/lib’ of the GTK package.  (According to
>> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-running.html)
>>
>> To make IBus work we need to find a way to make the different major
>> versions of GTK respect different ‘immodules.cache’ files that are *not*
>> located in their ‘$libdir’.  In that case we could generate a fresh
>> ‘immodules.cache’ file for each major GTK version when building a
>> profile.  Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find any documented
>> means to achieve this.  It might require patching the GTKs to check an
>> additional path or environment variable.
>>
> We can set 'GTK_EXE_PREFIX' to the '~/.guix-profile', and generate the
> 'immodules.cache' files in a profile hook.  It will work for both gtk2
> and gtk3 applications.

Does this mean that GTK needs to be installed in the user’s profile for
this to work?  I thought ‘GTK_EXE_PREFIX’ would change the path of
‘$libdir’ for *all* of GTK’s libraries.  It can only have one value, not
a list of paths to look for libraries.

~~ Ricardo