On 5/15/24 12:55, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
On 15/05/2024 10:52, Ian McInerney via devel wrote:
What if I don't use GNOME search? I don't use the GNOME desktop, so I
don't want to have a random Firefox process running on my machine that
is doing absolutely nothing and just hogging resources. Is this
process only created when something tries to talk to it on the DBus
socket, or is it always there listening?
Yes, it should be moved to a separate package and installed only if the
gnome-shell is installed.
Let's me explain it a bit:
Gnome search service is provided by running Firefox application itself.
It's because it searches and publishes results from recent live user
profile.
Gnome search provider needs to be 'activable' DBus service so you need
to set DBusActivatable=true at .desktop file and the application needs
to provide org.freedesktop.Application.
Activable service also means (from my testing) that the application
itself it not run by 'Exec' specified at .desktop file but by DBus
service. If DBus service is missing it's run first and then
org.freedesktop.Application is queried.
So if we have Firefox without Gnome search service / DBus service we'd
need different .desktop file with 'DBusActivatable=false' for it (as
AFAIK rpm doesn't allow to overwrite file owned by different package).
If there's DBusActivatable=true at .desktop file but the DBus service is
missing the applications fails to launch.
So it's a bit complicated situation here. I think it's clumsy to have
firefox-gnome and firefox-non-gnome rpm with different desktop files but
I don't see any other option (beside to remove gnome search or implement
it as different app and broker the search results).
--
Martin Stransky
Software Engineer / Red Hat, Inc
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