Hello Ludovic and Leo, Leo Prikler <leo.prik...@student.tugraz.at> writes:
> Hi Ludo, > > Am Dienstag, den 03.11.2020, 23:46 +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis: >> >> > This is not news to us, but as >> > <https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190624#guixsd> notes, >> > the >> > application menu of desktop environments is not automatically >> > updated >> > when a package is installed or removed. It’d be great if we could >> > somehow notify the desktop environment. >> >> We’ve investigated today on IRC with Maxim and Leo P. and here’s the >> summary of our findings: > Seeing my name thrown around more and more lately makes me blush a > little. >> [...] >> >> The GLib patch below is an attempt to monitor ~/.guix-profile and to >> treat changes to that symlink as if they were changes to >> ~/.guix-profile/share/applications (which contains ‘.desktop’ files.) >> It actually builds but I haven’t tested it yet. :-) >> >> WDYT? Pretty cool! It'd keep on working even if we even clean up /etc/profile from the hardcoded defauts environment variables (say, if we merge one of the proposed solution of https://issues.guix.gnu.org/22138). > Not having tested it either, I think that we should also listen on > /run/current-system/ (if it exists), so that changes to the system as > done by `reconfigure` are picked up. This includes most importantly > changes to the GNOME ecosystem itself. I agree that it seems useful and important to add a monitor on the /run/current-system as well. Thank you! Maxim
