On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 07:32:53PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > However, it installs share/applications/transmission-gtk.desktop into the > profile, containing > > Exec=transmission-gtk %U > > i.e. it won't find it. > > transmission-cli works. > > I checked gnu/packages/bittorrent.scm , it seems to do some weird > special-case for the gui (it puts the gui into a "gui" output and the rest > into an "out" output). > > But > > $ guix package -i transmission:gui > > works. If that's supposed to be the official way, that's not discoverable.
If you do `guix package --show=transmission`, the following line appears in the output: outputs: out gui So, it is discoverable, although it doesn't jump out at you. I think that when we have a graphical package management tool, the multiple outputs should be made more apparent to our users. > Also, the desktop file should also be in there, then it's at more consistent. Can you look at how some other packages do this [0], and send a patch fixing this aspect of the transmission package to guix-de...@gnu.org? [0] If you don't know where to start, just try using `grep` for the relevant terms in 'gnu/packages'. I don't really know much about this subject, so sorry that I can't give more specific advice.
