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[PATCH] gnu: home: services: Add 'wayland-display' service.

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Message #16 received at 76619 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Hilton Chain <hako <at> ultrarare.space>
Cc: Sisiutl <sisiutl <at> egregore.fun>, 76619 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#76619] [PATCH] gnu: home: services: Add 'wayland-display'
 service.
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:16:18 +0100

Hi Hilton,

Hilton Chain <hako <at> ultrarare.space> skribis:

> Since some services may depend on either DISPLAY or WAYLAND_DISPLAY, and these
> two services (x11-display, wayland-display) are similar, I think we can merge
> them into one and deprecate home-x11-service-type by this new service.
>
> e.g.
>
> service: home-display-service-type
> configuration: x11? (boolean: #f) wayland? (boolean: #f) time-to-wait (integer: 10)
> default-value #f
> provision: 'x11-display when x11? is #t
>            'wayland-display when walyand? is #t
>            'display when either x11? or wayland? is #t
> return value: "DISPLAY: unset; WAYLAND_DISPLAY: wayland-1"
>
> Then one service can choose to depend on 'display or specifically 'x11-display /
> 'wayland-display.

That sounds like a good idea to me.  It goes beyond the scope of the
initial patch in this thread though.

Sisiutl, Hilton: who wants to work on it?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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