Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@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’?
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)
Ludo’.
