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[PATCH 0/2] Add hyprland-qtutils; use it Hyprland

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From: Hilton Chain <hako <at> ultrarare.space>
To: John Kehayias <john.kehayias <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 75337 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, collin <at> rekahsoft.ca
Subject: [bug#75337] [PATCH 0/2] Add hyprland-qtutils; use it Hyprland
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:58:34 +0800

On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 13:23:05 +0800,
John Kehayias wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> As pointed out in <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/75036#2>, Hyprland now wants
> binaries from the hyprland-qtutils package, which this patch series adds. I
> checked that it builds and I can run the utlities. One is to send a message if
> Hyprland is updated, which isn't relevant for our package, but I didn't look
> into any easy way to disable that from the source if that's what we want to
> do.
>
> One thing to point out is that I manually wrapped the binaries with needed QT
> environment variables to get them to work. Using qt-buid-system or calling
> qt-wrap-program (or qt-wrap-all-programs) did not do much: it just added the
> plugin path for qtbase-5 (not an input here). I didn't try to investigate
> further but maybe the qt-team could chime in.

qt-build-system has a #:qtbase argument, you can set it to qtbase.

> On the Hyprland end, it just checks for these utlities somewhere on the PATH
> (or something like that) so I just used propagated-inputs. The package/build
> does not otherwise depend or try to find these at build time. Using
> propagated-inputs seems to me the easiest and most straight forward method
> here (the source does not just hardcode something like
> "/usr/bin/hyprland-dialog" to patch with a store path).

Found a pattern to bypass the check :)
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(substitute* ...
  (("!executableExistsInPath.*\".") "false")
  (("hyprland-update-screen" cmd)
   (search-input-file inputs (in-vicinity "bin" cmd))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> I have not actually tried running the latest Hyprland which will warn (but
> otherwise should work) about these.
>
> Thanks all!
> John
>
> John Kehayias (2):
>   gnu: Add hyprland-qtutils.
>   gnu: hyprland: Add hyprland-qtutils to propagated-inputs.
>
>  gnu/packages/qt.scm | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  gnu/packages/wm.scm |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)
>
>
> base-commit: a707ebe5d3875a49523bc17de2d36af6f1c18f7e
> prerequisite-patch-id: 3efc585c869da704ca71214328a78b6e6bbad919
> prerequisite-patch-id: 82bcb22fe1f5bd69d26626e575b7629f6f223ae3
> prerequisite-patch-id: b12f224a58be29cf89415a53dc245e4057139e22
> prerequisite-patch-id: 9fa5469aa4528c28962598256414bf4a4f517dce
> --
> 2.47.1
>
>

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