Re: [PATCH] doc: Suggest installing gvfs.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> “gvfs” is useful for more than just GNOME.  For a long time I tried to
> figure out why USB devices would not be mounted automatically in Xfce
> and I ran gvfsd and the gvfs-* device monitor daemons manually — until
> today when I understood that these daemons are supposed to be started
> automatically if only the DBUS service files were found.
>
> We probably should add it to the “gnome” meta-package, and additionally
> document in the manual that gvfs must be installed system-wide to allow
> DBUS to find the service files and start the monitoring daemons on
> demand.

If it’s not specific to GNOME, what about adding it to
‘%desktop-services’?


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diff --git a/gnu/services/desktop.scm b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
index 7555780..c359035 100644
--- a/gnu/services/desktop.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
@@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ with the administrator's password."
          (screen-locker-service xlockmore "xlock")
 
          ;; The D-Bus clique.
+         (simple-service 'gvfsd dbus-root-service-type gvfs)
          (avahi-service)
          (wicd-service)
          (udisks-service)

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Ludo’.