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 ---- 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).