From: sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
To: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>
Cc: Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>,
"help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: KDE + Guix as a package manager
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:59:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17003321f95.e0dd054159676.870170966383657476@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91c6a3ba2b30b1b03c2608cdd9befe4dab6a3e01.camel@gmail.com>
---- On Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:35:02 -0500 Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com> wrote ----
> On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 21:07 +0000, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have Guix installed as a package manager on KDE-Neon and I use it
> > for my tools but they are not found by KDE but they run perfectly if
> > I run them from my terminal (my bashrc is setting the needed
> > variables).
> >
> > I tried playing around with different files and setting environment
> > variables but I'm unable to make it work.
> >
> > How do you manage that?
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Ekaitz
> >
> > ElenQ Technology
> > Ethical Innovation
> >
> >
> >
>
> Some apps don't generate a .desktop file. If an app does generate a
> .desktop, it would be installed in "~/.guix-
> profile/share/applications/". If an apps you use doesn't have a
> .desktop there, report a bug.
> If KDE isn't showing an icon for an app with a .desktop file in
> ~/.guix-profile/share/applications/ then you will need to configure KDE
> to look there for .desktop files. I don't know how to do that though.
>
I don't know if KDE follows freedesktop.org specifications about .desktop files and their locations, but there is a previous thread about this kind of problem; they modify XDG_DATA_DIRS to make things work (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-11/msg00020.html).
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-01 21:07 KDE + Guix as a package manager Ekaitz Zarraga
2020-02-01 23:35 ` Jesse Gibbons
2020-02-01 23:59 ` sirgazil [this message]
2020-02-02 11:42 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
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