Re: IBus and different GTK versions

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com> writes:

>>> 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.

> Yes, this require install GTK+ into user's profile.
> Also, there is a 'GTK_DATA_PREFIX' in a same situation, which I think is
> the only way to set the GTK+ 2 theme.

Isn’t this a little too high a price to pay?  One can only install one
(major) version of GTK+ into a profile, so when we begin propagating the
GTK inputs users will run into conflicts.

I would really like to avoid propagating GTK+ (although it may be a bad
idea to have software depend on different minor versions of GTK+).  It
would be very nice if only additional modules—such as explicitly
installed themes and input method modules—would have to be installed to
the profile.  Those who do not need themes or input methods would not
need to be bothered with this at all.

~~ Ricardo