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Document wrapGAppsHook #16285

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bennofs opened this issue Jun 17, 2016 · 4 comments · Fixed by #43150
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Document wrapGAppsHook #16285

bennofs opened this issue Jun 17, 2016 · 4 comments · Fixed by #43150
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0.kind: enhancement Add something new 6.topic: GNOME GNOME desktop environment and its underlying platform 9.needs: documentation

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bennofs commented Jun 17, 2016

I just found out about wrapGAppsHook by examining a gnome package, but there really should be documentation about this in the Nixpkgs User Guide (a section about Gnome would be nice, which would show the right way to package GTK3 / GTK2 glib based apps).

Also, perhaps there are other things I missed that one should know when packaging Gnome Applications or GTK3/2 apps?

/cc @lethalman @jgeerds @DamienCassou Gnome maintainers
@bennofs bennofs added 0.kind: enhancement Add something new 6.topic: GNOME GNOME desktop environment and its underlying platform 9.needs: documentation labels Jun 17, 2016
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CMCDragonkai commented Mar 4, 2018 •
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I'd like to know as well. Currently receiving this error:

(gpredict:7844): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system

On one of the packages I'm trying to put into nixpkgs.

Apparently sometimes you need gnome3.defaultIconTheme for buildInputs.

So apparently all you need to do to use this is:

nativeBuildInputs = [ wrapGAppsHook ];

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jtojnar commented Mar 4, 2018

The error occurs when you do not have any directory containing glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled in XDG_DATA_DIRS variable. One of the things wrapGAppsHook does is adding share/gsettings-schemas/$name (which usually contains the aforementioned file) of dependencies to XDG_DATA_DIRS. (Actually this happens in cooperation with glib setup hook via $GSETTINGS_SCHEMAS_PATH variable.)

Icon themes work in the same vein, only XDG_ICON_DIRS variable is used and it is populated by hicolor-icon-theme’s setup hook which is propagated to gnome3.defaultIconTheme (adwaita-icon-theme).

hicolor-icon-theme (XDG fallback theme) should be probably added to any GTK application that uses icons (I think that is every GTK applicaton nowadays due to CSD) but some applications require Adwaita because they use icons not in hicolor. Not sure if this functions correctly though, at least it should not according to my mental model of how icon theme selection works; I will need to read the relevant XDG spec before I can finish the documentation.

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tbenst commented May 27, 2019

Just thought I'd leave this comment here for future reference: if you get an error like ValueError: Namespace Gtk not available for python gtk applications, try adding wrapGAppsHook to propogatedBuildInputs!

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jtojnar commented May 27, 2019

@tbenst It should go to nativeBuildInputs, though. But be wary of #56943

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doc: add GNOME
075b528 
Closes: NixOS#16285
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doc: add GNOME
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Closes: #16285
(cherry picked from commit 075b528)
KoviRobi pushed a commit to KoviRobi/Pye-Menu that referenced this issue Dec 10, 2019
Added wrapGAppsHook as nativeBuildInputs
cb16a98 
I had

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/nix/store/sg2pb6pyl5w5jw9g2p145c0h6n7ngxvi-workspace-renumber", li
ne 2, in <module>
    from pye_menu import TopMenu, SubMenu, MenuItem, SubMenuItem, ExecMenuI
tem
  File "/nix/store/wq8m6gxcwbi5502javwkc7drvmh5sk7g-python3-3.7.5-env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pye_menu.py", line 6, in <module>
    gi.require_versions({'Gtk': '3.0', 'PangoCairo': '1.0'})
  File "/nix/store/wq8m6gxcwbi5502javwkc7drvmh5sk7g-python3-3.7.5-env/lib/p
ython3.7/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 152, in require_versions
    require_version(module_name, module_version)
  File "/nix/store/wq8m6gxcwbi5502javwkc7drvmh5sk7g-python3-3.7.5-env/lib/p
ython3.7/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 129, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace Gtk not available
```

when trying to use it as a library. See

NixOS/nixpkgs#16285
NixOS/nixpkgs#56943
KoviRobi pushed a commit to KoviRobi/Pye-Menu that referenced this issue Dec 10, 2019
Added wrapGAppsHook as nativeBuildInputs
49b86e1 
I had

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/nix/store/sg2pb6pyl5w5jw9g2p145c0h6n7ngxvi-workspace-renumber", li
ne 2, in <module>
    from pye_menu import TopMenu, SubMenu, MenuItem, SubMenuItem, ExecMenuI
tem
  File "/nix/store/wq8m6gxcwbi5502javwkc7drvmh5sk7g-python3-3.7.5-env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pye_menu.py", line 6, in <module>
    gi.require_versions({'Gtk': '3.0', 'PangoCairo': '1.0'})
  File "/nix/store/wq8m6gxcwbi5502javwkc7drvmh5sk7g-python3-3.7.5-env/lib/p
ython3.7/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 152, in require_versions
    require_version(module_name, module_version)
  File "/nix/store/wq8m6gxcwbi5502javwkc7drvmh5sk7g-python3-3.7.5-env/lib/p
ython3.7/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 129, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace Gtk not available
```

when trying to use it as a library. See

NixOS/nixpkgs#16285
NixOS/nixpkgs#56943
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spectacle: add wrapGAppsHook
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Fixes no Gsettings error when clicking saveAs.
Following method mentioned in NixOS#16285
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Following method mentioned in NixOS#16285
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Fixes no Gsettings error when trying to open file picker.
Following method mentioned in NixOS#16285
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Paraver: Use wrapGApps Hook for nixos
37ce5ef 
Needed to fix the error on NixOS:

  GLib-GIO-ERROR **: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system

See NixOS/nixpkgs#16285

Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Arias Mallo <rodrigo.arias@bsc.es>
Tested-by: Rodrigo Arias Mallo <rodrigo.arias@bsc.es>
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