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Pitivi can't be started

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From: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>, Christian Miller <miller.christian <at> proton.me>, 56288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56288: Pitivi can't be started
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:08:33 +0200

Hello Lily and Christian,

This is unfortunately the usual gdk-pixbuf SVG loader not being found,
since it is part of librsvg.  Some details are described in [1] already,
but to summarize:  we need to propagate gdk-pixbuf so that the
search-path GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE is properly set for the profile.

Hence, I can reproduce the issue with
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix shell --pure pitivi -- pitivi
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

but the following launches pitivi properly (didn't check further)
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix shell --pure pitivi gdk-pixbuf hicolor-icon-theme adwaita-icon-theme -- pitivi
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I think it's very impractical that we have to do this for all packages
that wish to load SVG files via gdk-pixbuf, because it's technical and
not a concern that upstream developers document, since they don't
encounter such behavior.

[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=52044#41
    (87zgozy59x.fsf <at> jpoiret.xyz)

HTH,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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