Hi Ludo, Am Dienstag, den 03.11.2020, 23:46 +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis: > > > This is not news to us, but as > > <https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190624#guixsd> notes, > > the > > application menu of desktop environments is not automatically > > updated > > when a package is installed or removed. It’d be great if we could > > somehow notify the desktop environment. > > We’ve investigated today on IRC with Maxim and Leo P. and here’s the > summary of our findings: Seeing my name thrown around more and more lately makes me blush a little. > [...] > > The GLib patch below is an attempt to monitor ~/.guix-profile and to > treat changes to that symlink as if they were changes to > ~/.guix-profile/share/applications (which contains ‘.desktop’ files.) > It actually builds but I haven’t tested it yet. :-) > > WDYT? Not having tested it either, I think that we should also listen on /run/current-system/ (if it exists), so that changes to the system as done by `reconfigure` are picked up. This includes most importantly changes to the GNOME ecosystem itself.
Regards, Leo
