Re: hardcoded $HOME/.guix-profile in kdevelop

[Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>]

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: hardcoded $HOME/.guix-profile in kdevelop
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 21:17:44 +0200

> I just stumbled upon commit 2f4d08ee7f897e254c6e533ad2d69c7fe4998f38
> while looking for an example of a package that uses QT_PLUGIN_PATH. 
>  I
> noticed that the above commit unconditionally adds 
> “$HOME/.guix-profile”
> to the XDG_DATA_DIRS.
>
> I think we should not hardcode the default user profile directory in
> application wrappers.  Is it really necessary to add
> “$HOME/.guix-profile” to XDG_DATA_DIRS in the wrapper?  Will the 
> package
> fail to work when it is installed to a different profile?

Hi,

some icons were missing from the interface, and adding 
<profile>/share to XDG_DATA_DIRS improved that.  But you're right 
that this is not a proper solution (I was young and naive at the time 
;-) ).  Probably it can be solved just as well by installing the 
icons in the proper directory (something like 
<out>/share/icons/hicolor ?).

I'll try to improve this.

There's a similar problem with QT_PLUGIN_PATH, though perhaps that 
will be fixed with the qt/kde install location patches people are 
currently working on.

Thomas