Subject: Re: [bug#39004] [PATCH] gnu: pcmanfm-qt: fix open file issue

From: "Reza Alizadeh Majd" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:47:53 +0330

Hi Danny, 

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi Reza,
> 
> thanks for the patch.  I think that it is the right way for now.
> 
> But GIO_LAUNCH_DESKTOP is not interpreted as a list by glib.
> 
> It would be better to communicate intent by constructing GIO_LAUNCH_DESKTOP as
> 
>                (wrap-program (string-append out "/bin/pcmanfm-qt")
>                  `("GIO_LAUNCH_DESKTOP" =
>                    (,(string-append glib "/bin/gio-launch-desktop"))))
> 
> .
> 
> Otherwise, with ":" and "prefix" it very much sounded like a list.
> 
> Also, could you make it check whether /bin/gio-launch-desktop exists and
> error out otherwise?  That is in order for us to notice the workaround
> later when we move the gio-launch-desktop executable.
> 
> (if (file-exists? ".........../bin/gio-launch-desktop")
>     (wrap-program ........)
>     (error "Could not find gio-launch-desktop"))
>

Thanks for your guidance, I updated the patch and applied both of 

- GIO_LAUNCH_DESKTOP variable format
- gio-launch-desktop existence check 

to this new patch. 

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Regards
Reza Alizadeh Majd
PantherX Team