[bug#57679] [RFC PATCH] gnu: Add paraview.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Paul,

"Paul A. Patience" <paul@apatience.com> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/graphics.scm (paraview): New variable.
> ---
> Hi,
>
> ParaView builds with this patch, but doesn't display icons for any of its
> buttons, e.g., for open file, etc.
> I have no idea how to fix this.

I always forget as well, but I suspect you’d get icons if it’s included
in a profile that has adwaita installed?  Maxim?

> I started packaging ParaView last year but encountered this problem and gave
> up on trying to fix it.
> Yesterday I started updating (and cleaning up quite a bit) the package for the
> latest release (candidate) of ParaView, and it's basically done except for the
> missing icons.

Neat.

FWIW, I also had another version packaged, but perhaps the only useful
bits you could borrow are the synopsis and description:

  https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-hpc/-/blob/master/inria/staging.scm#L77

Ludo’.