>If a software component comes with desktop files, what's the right place to >put them relative to the component's output path?
share/applications > I think we're doing this already for some Guix packages, but since my > knowledge of the FreeDesktop standard is limited, I'm not sure if it's > by accident or if it's intentional. It's intentional. I'm actively filing bugs and fixing them if GUI programs don't have a desktop file - because that's just silly, having a program you can't (easily) run. See guix/profiles.scm xdg-desktop-database for the profile hook that merges all the share/applications directories of the packages in the profile. For the hook to be run, desktop-file-utils (of freedesktop) has to be an input of the package or some of its dependencies (i.e. it has to be available on the build side in the environment). I think we should just make desktop-file-utils a propagated-input of gtk. (In fact, even gio (part of glib) already supports desktop files: https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/gio-Desktop-file-based-GAppInfo.html . However, there are lots of non-GUI programs using glib. For example, desktop-file-utils uses glib) Disclaimer: I have no idea how KDE works - but desktop-file-utils seems to be missing entirely there. Qt doesn't require it either. Weird. Similar stuff is done if GLIB is a dependency of a package, for xdg-mime-database.
