Hi Ricardo! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: >> >>> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: >>> >>>> “gvfs” is useful for more than just GNOME. For a long time I tried to >>>> figure out why USB devices would not be mounted automatically in Xfce >>>> and I ran gvfsd and the gvfs-* device monitor daemons manually — until >>>> today when I understood that these daemons are supposed to be started >>>> automatically if only the DBUS service files were found. >>>> >>>> We probably should add it to the “gnome” meta-package, and additionally >>>> document in the manual that gvfs must be installed system-wide to allow >>>> DBUS to find the service files and start the monitoring daemons on >>>> demand. >>> >>> If it’s not specific to GNOME, what about adding it to >>> ‘%desktop-services’? >> >> How would that work? > > This patch extends DBus with gvfs, since you said gvfs is a set of DBus > services (I didn’t check). If gvfs provides DBus service definition > files, then DBus will automatically pick them and start the services on > demand. > >> “gvfs” doesn’t provide any services that would be run as root. It >> only comes with dbus service files; the daemons are started as the >> current user on demand over dbus when certain libraries are loaded. > > OK, so that was the wrong approach. > > In that case, what about adding the package to the global profile like > this: > > diff --git a/gnu/services/desktop.scm b/gnu/services/desktop.scm > index 7555780..5d02bd0 100644 > --- a/gnu/services/desktop.scm > +++ b/gnu/services/desktop.scm > @@ -753,6 +753,10 @@ with the administrator's password." > (screen-locker-service slock) > (screen-locker-service xlockmore "xlock") > > + ;; GVFS is used by both GNOME and Xfce. It provides DBus services > + ;; started on behalf of users, and those daemons need to be in > $PATH. > + (simple-service 'gvfs profile-service-type gvfs) > + > ;; The D-Bus clique. > (avahi-service) > (wicd-service) Should we do this? I would test it but I don’t know how. Ludo’.
