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[PATCH 0/6] XFCE Updates

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From: Brendan Tildesley <mail <at> brendan.scot>
To: 54434 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: tumashu <at> 163.com, ludo <at> gnu.org, maximedevos <at> telenet.be
Subject: Re: bug#54434: [PATCH 0/6] XFCE Updates
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 17:30:05 +1100

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宋文武 writes:

> Brendan Tildesley writes:
>
>> On 4/4/22 12:56 pm, Feng Shu wrote:
>>> Brendan Tildesley writes:
>>>
>>>> On 3/4/22 8:33 pm, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> One problem is that this won’t work for those using Guix Home, 
where the
>>>>> default profile is ~/.guix-home/profile.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can this extra variable be avoided? Or could it be handled by a 
search
>>>>> path specification?
>>>> It's xfce4-panel that needs the search path to load .so files for
>>>> panel plugins.
>>>> xfce4-panel already has the search-path set to load them, but since
>>>> its installed
>>>> to the system profile,it does not load the user installed plugins. If
>>>> xfce4-panel
>>>> was a user installed package it may work but userswould have to
>>>> manually install it.
>>>> So I'm not sure how else to solve it.
>>> What happen when version of xfce4-panel installed in system profile is
>>> different from installed in home profile?
>> I think xfce4-panel will be run from $PATH so the system version will
>> be picked first and the user installed one will be ignored. The search
>> path will be set but will not work until the user logs out and back in
>> again, which is not ideal. I'd like a user to be able to install a 
plugin
>> and have it appear in the settings menu immediately.
>
> Hello, when the version of xfce4-panel and its plugins are different,
> xfce4-panel may crash, unable to start. I think it's best keep them in
> one profile, and prefer user's profile. Well, the polkit actions need
> installed into the system profile though.

If the user installs XFCE manually in the profile, I'm not sure it will
find locally installed plugins anyway will it? I haven't tested it. I
use XFCE installed globally via the service.

With XFCE in the local profile it is not possible for a login manager to
detect and launch it, so to use it with a login manager it must be
installed globally, just like on any other distro. I guess that is
acceptable.

Perhaps it is ok to let the user take responsibility for any such
incompatibility that may occur?

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