Yes you are right, that is an oversight we should fix with our kicad
guix package. Nice find! I will work on an update to address the problem
and then submit a pull request. Thank you!

Daniel Trujillo Viedma <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi, Peter!
>
>
> In summary, in Kicad 10, whenever I pressed the "Plugin and Content Manager"
> button from the main menu, Kicad would receive a SIGTRAP. I tracked down the
> problem to a missing org.gnome.system.proxy schema, which is available in the
> gsettings-desktop-schemas package. After installing this package, I'm able to
> use all of the Kicad functionality without a problem so far.
>
>
> It's not a problem with Kicad problem, and honestly, I don't even think it's a
> problem with the Kicad package, but rather a missing dependency upstream the
> dependency tree that hasn't been caught (since it would be weird to me that
> Kicad would depend explicitly from this specific component of GNOME)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dani.
>
>
> On 23/9/26 18:42, Peter Polidoro wrote:
>> What problem did you find? Is it a problem with the kicad source code or 
>> with our Guix packages of it? I would be happy to help fix it since I use 
>> kicad frequently.
>>
>>> On Sep 23, 2026, at 12:25, Cayetano Santos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>> dim. 20 sept. 2026 at 18:36, Daniel Trujillo Viedma <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Hello, help-guix!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've discovered a problem with Kicad starting with version 10 some months 
>>>> ago, and today
>>>> I've tracked down the problem and I think I've solved it. Since I'm not at 
>>>> all confident
>>>> enough to open an issue, I wanted to discuss it here first and see your 
>>>> opinion.
>>> Maybe this rings a bell for Peter ?
>>>
>>> C.
>>>

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