I asked about this issue on #webkitgtk:gnome.org on IRC. It turns
out that what's missing from my environment is gst-plugins-bad (most
likely the fakevideosink plugin contained therein). If I install
gst-plugins-bad into an environment with a webgkitgtk browser, the crash I
was seeing is resolved. Only adding gst-plugins-bad to the inputs of
webkitgtk doesn't seem to be enough to solve the problem. I suppose some
additional wrapping is needed somewhere (although gst-plugins-base shows
up in the webkitgtk references).
What's the best path forward here?
Should leaf applications that use webkitgtk be wrapped to find the right
gst-plugins? This seems suboptimal to me. If the plugins are really
dependencies of webkitgtk then perhaps they should be encoded that way in
Guix.
Should webkitgtk be wrapped somehow to find the plugins on its own? How
would this wrapping be done? Do we want to force all webkitgtk applications
to carry around these dependencies?
Best,
Jack
