Subject: bug#36376: closed (Re: bug#35594: bug#36376: Application menu of desktop environment not automatically updated)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:39:02 +0000

Your bug report

#36376: Application menu of desktop environment not automatically updated

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#35594: bug#36376: Application menu of desktop environment not automatically updated
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Cc: Leo Prikler <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:38:41 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

>>>From 7d03b2b823951219ece46c7f34e25ae36a8ba12c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:35:24 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: glib: Graft patch to detect changes to the installed
>  applications.
>
> Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/35594>.
> Reported by sirgazil <[email-masked]> and others.
>
> * gnu/packages/patches/glib-appinfo-watch.patch: New file.
> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
> * gnu/packages/glib.scm (glib)[replacement]: New field.
> (glib-with-gio-patch): New variable.
> (glib-with-documentation): Use 'package/inherit'.

Pushed as ae10ec441aa524bf267f9cefd4a319b44d0b8b44 (version-1.2.0).

Ludo’.

Subject: Application menu of desktop environment not automatically updated
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:12:44 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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.

Ludo’.