---- On Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:35:02 -0500 Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2...@gmail.com> wrote ---- > On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 21:07 +0000, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have Guix installed as a package manager on KDE-Neon and I use it > > for my tools but they are not found by KDE but they run perfectly if > > I run them from my terminal (my bashrc is setting the needed > > variables). > > > > I tried playing around with different files and setting environment > > variables but I'm unable to make it work. > > > > How do you manage that? > > Thoughts? > > > > Thank you. > > > > Ekaitz > > > > ElenQ Technology > > Ethical Innovation > > > > > > > > Some apps don't generate a .desktop file. If an app does generate a > .desktop, it would be installed in "~/.guix- > profile/share/applications/". If an apps you use doesn't have a > .desktop there, report a bug. > If KDE isn't showing an icon for an app with a .desktop file in > ~/.guix-profile/share/applications/ then you will need to configure KDE > to look there for .desktop files. I don't know how to do that though. >
I don't know if KDE follows freedesktop.org specifications about .desktop files and their locations, but there is a previous thread about this kind of problem; they modify XDG_DATA_DIRS to make things work (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-11/msg00020.html).
