Hello Guix!
GNOME (actually ‘gnome-settings-daemon’) pops up a notification upon low
disk space that looks like this:
Low Disk Space on “filesystem root”
[ Empty Trash ] [ Examine ]
The “Examine” button spawns the Disk Space Analyzer (aka Baobab) and the
“Empty Trash” button does its thing.
The untested patch below adds a ‘guix gc’ button, which is probably more
important than the other two on Guix System.
I’m not sure whether implementing it is as simple as this: is it OK to
block during GC or should it be done in a separate process?
If someone here has more insight or would like to give it a try, please
let me know!
Ludo’.
diff --git a/plugins/housekeeping/gsd-disk-space.c b/plugins/housekeeping/gsd-disk-space.c
index bd3437e..870430b 100644
--- a/plugins/housekeeping/gsd-disk-space.c
+++ b/plugins/housekeeping/gsd-disk-space.c
@@ -546,6 +546,20 @@ empty_trash_callback (NotifyNotification *n,
notify_notification_close (n, NULL);
}
+static void
+guix_gc_callback (NotifyNotification *n,
+ const char *action)
+{
+ GDateTime *old;
+
+ g_assert (action != NULL);
+ g_assert (strcmp (action, "run-guix-gc") == 0);
+
+ system ("guix gc");
+
+ notify_notification_close (n, NULL);
+}
+
static void
on_notification_closed (NotifyNotification *n)
{
@@ -591,6 +605,13 @@ ldsm_notify (const char *summary,
g_free);
}
+ notify_notification_add_action (notification,
+ "run-guix-gc",
+ _("Collect Unused Guix Items"),
+ (NotifyActionCallback) guix_gc_callback,
+ NULL,
+ NULL);
+
has_trash = ldsm_mount_has_trash (mount_path);
if (has_trash) {
