Hi Brett, Brett Gilio <bre...@posteo.net> writes:
> Timothy Sample writes: > >> Hi Brett, >> >> [...] >> >> I can think of two options for a fix before 1.0 (which is supposed to be >> tomorrow!). The cute one is to just rename “Fail” to “~Fail”, on the >> expectation that this will come after most other names when sorted. The >> ugly one is to patch GDM to exclude the placeholder file when looking >> for “.desktop” files, and then to select it instead of raising an error >> when it can’t find anything. >> >> My preference is for the ugly one, because the cute one feels like >> putting a silly hack on top of silly hack – it’s just a bit too much. >> I’ve attached a patch. Thoughts? (If I don’t hear anything, I will >> push it – it’s important that this works for 1.0). >> >> >> In the future, we should find a way to make GDM errors less >> catastrophic, but I doubt we could do that in a day (I certainly >> couldn’t)! >> >>> Thank you for looking into this Tim! I have gone back to SLiM for the >>> time being until it is fixed :). >>> >>> If anybody else is having this issue, going back to SLiM is really >>> easy, check out my commit for reference. >>> >>> https://github.com/brettgilio/guix-system/commit/64d389db13c2f78ee5c58af28c1639b098113c93 >> >> Thanks for providing this. Hopefully it helps anybody else having >> problems. >> >> >> -- Tim > > I think the uglier version is more generic and less likely to cause > future errors. But, it is a matter of time. The uglier one is likely > going to be more terse. > > Do you need any help on my end? No, but thank you for offering and thanks for catching my mistake before we released 1.0. :) I pushed e8c6e771c199c02b748eb66d3a03c46d2a32ca29 to master, which should fix this. Hence, I’m closing the bug. -- Tim
