Hi,

thanks for your explanation.

> for this, you can try putting the various profiles' share folder
>> to XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable.

How can I do this?

I am using MATE desktop mainly (more shortcuts) and sometimes KDE (less 
shortcuts for me at the moment).

> Note that your desktop environment needs to have
>> this environment variable, so you need to export it in something like a .profile
>> file or otherwise ensure it's in your DE.

Please explain it more, I am on a lower level.

thanks
Gottfried


Am 07.12.24 um 15:02 schrieb Rutherther:
> 
> Fcc: ditigal/sent -unread -inbox
> Hi G. Preihs,
> 
>> 4.
>> I realised now, that, when opening Dolphin (KDE) and want to open a
>> file, right click (mouse) it ask me: "open with" , arrow down (right
>> side) it doesn´t show up that package with which I want to open this
>> file. But when writing e.g. libreoffice it opens the file with
>> libreoffice. After doing it once, libreoffice is mentioned in future in
>> this list. Interestingly it opens also with a package, which is located
>> in an other profile and I haven´t open this profile beforehand.
>> How that works, I don´t know.
> 
> for this, you can try putting the various profiles' share folder
> to XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable. I suppose you are already
> sourcing the environment variables of all the profiles, but unfortunately
> XDG_DATA_DIRS is not propagated. There is a longstanding issue that's still
> open about stuff like this. Note that your desktop environment needs to have
> this environment variable, so you need to export it in something like a .profile
> file or otherwise ensure it's in your DE.
> 
>> 5.
>> One question remains for me, if I update only one profile and it
>> downloads all the necessary dependences, how that works for the other
>> profiles which I didn´t update, also for the default profile, if I can
>> call it this way.
> 
> Most packages shouldn't mind about this. Guix puts them to separate store paths,
> and since the profiles for the most part do not interact, there shouldn't be many
> problems. But there still can be some, like potentially with qt plugins, glibc locales,
> and other stuff. Generally potentially anything that needs some environment variables in the profile,
> where multiple profiles use the same ones. But that is not to say that every time they overlap there will
> be problems. Take PATH, Guix packages are usually patched or wrapped to refer to runtime dependencies
> in the store directly, not to take them from PATH.
> 
> Regards,
> Rutherther
> Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 15:01:43 +0100
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