Re: what is the difference among files in /gnu/store

[Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>]

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Hi Julien,

thanks for your explanation

>> How did you get this list of store items?

I simply used "catfish" to look for "TraditionalGreen" and it gave me 
those 4 packages.

>> The second is the content of a system generation. You probably installed mate in your system :). The system generation is also the union of packages that you declared, so it includes mate, and consequently, the theme.

When I installed Guix, it gave me only 3 options of desktops: MATE, 
Enlightment and Awesome. That's why I installed all three of them.

I knew only MATE, I didn't know what Enlightment and Awesome was, so I 
installed them to get to know them. There was no Gnome, XFCE, KDE ... 
available. So I was wondering why some Guixers have e.g. Gnome or XFCE 
installed.
Now checking in the Guix Packages I found Gnome and XFCE available, but 
no KDE. KDE, AFAIK isn't available at the moment. Is that right?

>> If possible, please don't use a store path in your configuration. If you update the system, the new version will be at a different location (even if the version number is the same, as you've seen with mate-themes). It might get garbage-collected and will definitely get out of date.
>> 

I didn't do anything. It was installed this way when I installed Guix 
System.
In which other location Guix will install the new version?

>> Instead, you should reference a theme by its name only. If mate lets you, try to set the theme to "TraditionalGreen" and that will always be the latest version.

In my home folder there is a hidden folder with the name
.icons and another one with the name .themes.
I thought that in one ot those my "themes" will be stored.
But when I looked for them, catfish found them in /gnu/store.
Those tho folders are empty.
So if I would be able to install new themes, I thought to install them 
there, but I don't know if Guix will find them, because as far as I know 
Guix will look in /gnu/store.

Gottfried
"hacking" on the basics


Am 02.06.22 um 07:12 schrieb Julien Lepiller:
> Hi Gottfried,
> 
> How did you get this list of store items?
> 
> The first one comes from "mate". That's a meta-package that contains the union of a bunch of packages that are needed to run mate.
> 
> The second is the content of a system generation. You probably installed mate in your system :). The system generation is also the union of packages that you declared, so it includes mate, and consequently, the theme.
> 
> The last two are different versions of "mate-themes". I don't know which is more recent.
> 
> If possible, please don't use a store path in your configuration. If you update the system, the new version will be at a different location (even if the version number is the same, as you've seen with mate-themes). It might get garbage-collected and will definitely get out of date.
> 
> Instead, you should reference a theme by its name only. If mate lets you, try to set the theme to "TraditionalGreen" and that will always be the latest version.
> 
> HTH!
> 
> On June 1, 2022 9:03:39 PM GMT+02:00, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
>> Hi guixers,
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> I have in my MATE desktop a theme called "TraditionalGreen"
>>
>> There are several files.
>> What is the difference?
>>
>> /gnu/store/09bi02ldaqsykdfi8szv225z4adl98hj-mate-1.24.1/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
>>
>> /gnu/store/65dvsqhxly3cs33m935amvg1wc38s1ii-system/profile/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
>>
>> /gnu/store/aqpb71z7nl1jbaxi7q2364x5hm2lsab9-mate-themes-3.22.21/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
>>
>> /gnu/store/y3cwrifdqvainwddij7zvk0lspvbpsia-mate-themes-3.22.21/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
>>
>>
>> The 1. and 2. have a different Icon, it has something to do with a link (Verknüpfung german).
>>
>> Which one is used for the desktop?
>>
>> I want to learn the basics!
>>
>> Gottfried
> 


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