From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: "Danny Milosavljevic" <dannym@scratchpost.org>, 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com>
Cc: 26988@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26988: Add desktop-file-utils to all gtk applications
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 04:32:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efvj549b.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h90f5e2h.fsf@fastmail.com>
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Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Marius,
>> Hi 宋文武,
>>
>> On Sat, 20 May 2017 01:05:22 +0200
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
>>>
>>> > these are two patches I propose we add in order to add
>>> > desktop-file-utils to all gtk applications. This means that the
>>> > profile hook would pick up the desktop files (as soon as possible).
>>>
>>> So if I read (guix profiles) correctly, the hook only runs when
>>> 'desktop-file-utils' is referenced. Would checking for a gtk reference
>>> as well not achieve the same effect? Or is that too expensive?
>>
>> That would probably work as well.
>>
>> But the idea is KDE would eventually use the XDG desktop cache, too (maybe it already does - no idea). Any other desktop environments that don't reinvent the wheel in that regard would use desktop-file-utils as well - and that's the package that actually contains the "update-desktop-database" executable for updating the XDG desktop cache.
>>
>> Right now the "xdg-desktop-database" profile hook doesn't need its own magical packages but it just uses the existing desktop-file-utils reference for actually updating the desktop database.
>
> IIUC, the idea is to run the hook every time a package with a ".desktop"
> file has changed. Even if we propagate "desktop-file-utils" from say,
> GTK+ and Qt, it won't catch some cases where we add the ".desktop" file
> manually such as "rxvt-unicode".
A dirty workaround could be to add a reference to some dummy store item
in the 'patch-dot-desktop-files' phase. Maybe a hidden "mimeinfo-helper"
package and inject a reference to it directly in the '.desktop' files.
And then test for that in the profile hook. Sounds a bit hacky, but
should not cause any compatibility issues, and avoids the artificial
'desktop-file-utils' reference at 122MiB.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-21 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-18 21:01 bug#26988: Add desktop-file-utils to all gtk applications Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-18 21:07 ` bug#26988: [PATCH] gnu: Move desktop-file-utils to (gnu packages freedesktop) Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-18 21:19 ` bug#26988: [PATCH] gnu: gtk+-2: Add desktop-file-utils to propagated-inputs Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-19 23:05 ` bug#26988: Add desktop-file-utils to all gtk applications Marius Bakke
2017-05-20 13:04 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-20 23:00 ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-21 2:32 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2017-07-03 15:32 ` 宋文武
2017-07-03 17:08 ` [bug#26988] " Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-04 11:40 ` 宋文武
2017-06-05 19:22 ` bug#26988: [PATCH v2 0/2] " Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-05 19:22 ` bug#26988: [PATCH v2 1/2] gnu: Move desktop-file-utils to (gnu packages freedesktop) Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-15 8:27 ` [bug#26988] " Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-05 19:22 ` bug#26988: [PATCH v2 2/2] gnu: gtk+-2: Add desktop-file-utils to propagated-inputs Danny Milosavljevic
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