From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Beffa Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: libcanberra: Add propagated-input. Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 18:20:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87oaqxqn2h.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46075) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8uHl-00034r-Jl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:20:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8uHk-0006hP-7q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:20:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Guix-devel On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Federico Beffa wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wro= te: >> Federico Beffa skribis: >> >>> I propose to make sound-theme-freedesktop a propagated input of >>> libcanberra. This is because, according to the XDG sound theme >>> specification, those event sounds should always be present and used as >>> fall-back in case other sounds are not present. >>> >>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec/ >> >> That=E2=80=99s not the right fix, I think. For instance, if Evince is i= nstalled >> in a profile, but libcanberra itself is not in the profile, then the >> sound theme is not pulled and ends up not being used. >> >> Would it be possible, instead, to patch libcanberra to refer to the >> sound-theme directory as its fallback? > > The location of the sound theme is specified, among other things, by > the variable XDG_DATA_DIRS. So, if an application makes use of the > glib-or-gtk-build-system and has the sounds as inputs, then it should > find them. I don't think we need to patch libcanberra in any way. > > With my suggestion I was trying to avoid having to specify > sound-theme-freedesktop in addition to libcanberra in every gtk > application (as, e.g., evince). > > If we make libcanberra a propagated-input of applications like evince, > then they would automatically know the location of the sounds (by the > inheritance of propagated inputs). Not sure we concluded on this. Is my intention clear? Does my previous answer address your point? Regards, Fede