Subject: bug#55116: gnome-disks can't restore from image

From: raingloom <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 01:32:53 +0200

On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 10:00:29 +0200
Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> raingloom <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > guix commit: 59b91fdbcd7e1a88d1d54d392ce5d5fddd9d96d1
> >
> > guix shell gnome-disk-utility -- gnome-disks
> >
> > click on the three dots and choose restore, bam, error
> >
> > (gnome-disks:2461): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 04:17:28.300: Settings schema
> > 'org.gnome.Disks' is not installed  
> 
> I bet this has to do with XDG_DATA_DIRS not being set by the `guix
> shell` invocation.  Can you try `guix shell glib gnome-disk-utility`
> instead?
> 
> Best,

That does work. Not great UX. Can we either make it obvious that glib
needs to be in the environment, or just remove the need to explicitly
include it?