bug#39469: Openbox - Ark File Archiver does not load

bug#39469: Openbox - Ark File Archiver does not load

[Scott C. MacCallum via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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After the installation of all the available desktop environments, in Openbox from the Accessories menu, Ark File Archiver does not load. Error message, "Failed to execute child process "ark" (No such file or directory)."

Scott
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bug#39469: Openbox - Ark File Archiver does not load

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 6 février 2020 15:44:35 GMT-05:00, "Scott C. MacCallum via Bug reports for GNU Guix" <bug-guix@gnu.org> a écrit :
>After the installation of all the available desktop environments, in
>Openbox from the Accessories menu, Ark File Archiver does not load.
>Error message, "Failed to execute child process "ark" (No such file or
>directory)."
>
>Scott
>scmguru - irc.freenode.net
>
>Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

See #39468. Ark is not installed on your computer, and the menu is static. I don't think we can do anything about it.

bug#39469: Openbox - Ark File Archiver does not load

[Scott C. MacCallum via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

"Ark is not installed on your computer, and the menu is static."

Yes, I know.

"I don't think we can do anything about it."

I think we should. Other distros do, why should Guix be different?

Scott
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:05 PM, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:

> Le 6 février 2020 15:44:35 GMT-05:00, "Scott C. MacCallum via Bug reports for GNU Guix" bug-guix@gnu.org a écrit :
>
> > After the installation of all the available desktop environments, in
> > Openbox from the Accessories menu, Ark File Archiver does not load.
> > Error message, "Failed to execute child process "ark" (No such file or
> > directory)."
> > Scott
> > scmguru - irc.freenode.net
> > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
>
> See #39468. Ark is not installed on your computer, and the menu is static. I don't think we can do anything about it.

bug#39469: Openbox - Ark File Archiver does not load

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 6 février 2020 15:44:35 GMT-05:00, "Scott C. MacCallum via Bug reports for GNU Guix" <bug-guix@gnu.org> a écrit :
>After the installation of all the available desktop environments, in
>Openbox from the Accessories menu, Ark File Archiver does not load.
>Error message, "Failed to execute child process "ark" (No such file or
>directory)."
>
>Scott
>scmguru - irc.freenode.net
>
>Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

Same root cause as #39468

bug#39469: Openbox - Ark File Archiver does not load

[Jesse Gibbons]

On Thu, 2020-02-06 at 16:05 -0500, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> Le 6 février 2020 15:44:35 GMT-05:00, "Scott C. MacCallum via Bug
> reports for GNU Guix" <bug-guix@gnu.org> a écrit :
> > After the installation of all the available desktop environments,
> > in
> > Openbox from the Accessories menu, Ark File Archiver does not load.
> > Error message, "Failed to execute child process "ark" (No such file
> > or
> > directory)."
> > 
> > Scott
> > scmguru - irc.freenode.net
> > 
> > Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.
> 
> See #39468. Ark is not installed on your computer, and the menu is
> static. I don't think we can do anything about it.
> 
> 
> 
We could...
- patch the source so the menu is not static
- package ark (kde-ark) and include it as a propagated-input to openbox
- make sure openbox respects $PATH

bug#39469: Openbox - Ark File Archiver does not load

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 17 février 2020 12:49:28 GMT-05:00, Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com> a écrit :
>On Thu, 2020-02-06 at 16:05 -0500, Julien Lepiller wrote:
>> Le 6 février 2020 15:44:35 GMT-05:00, "Scott C. MacCallum via Bug
>> reports for GNU Guix" <bug-guix@gnu.org> a écrit :
>> > After the installation of all the available desktop environments,
>> > in
>> > Openbox from the Accessories menu, Ark File Archiver does not load.
>> > Error message, "Failed to execute child process "ark" (No such file
>> > or
>> > directory)."
>> > 
>> > Scott
>> > scmguru - irc.freenode.net
>> > 
>> > Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.
>> 
>> See #39468. Ark is not installed on your computer, and the menu is
>> static. I don't think we can do anything about it.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>We could...
>- patch the source so the menu is not static
>- package ark (kde-ark) and include it as a propagated-input to openbox
>- make sure openbox respects $PATH

Openbox already respects $PATH. As an openbox user, I don't expect the menu to be dynamic, unless I install a menu builder (which I kind of do, since I use the guix home manager for that). Ark is not a component of openbox, so I don't think it makes sense to propagate it. I certainly don't want to have it on my system.

As was suggested, the right thing to do is to have an %openbox-suggested-packages added to the set of system packages when installing openbox from the graphical installer. Then it would be up to users to decide what to do. We could also warn that openbox has less automation than other desktop managers. It's only a window manager.