> Brendan Tildesley writes:
>
>> On 4/4/22 12:56 pm, Feng Shu wrote:
>>> Brendan Tildesley writes:
>>>
>>>> On 3/4/22 8:33 pm, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> One problem is that this won’t work for
those using Guix Home, where the
>>>>> default profile is ~/.guix-home/profile.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can this extra variable be avoided? Or
could it be handled by a search
>>>>> path specification?
>>>> It's xfce4-panel that needs the search path
to load .so files for
>>>> panel plugins.
>>>> xfce4-panel already has the search-path set
to load them, but since
>>>> its installed
>>>> to the system profile,it does not load the
user installed plugins. If
>>>> xfce4-panel
>>>> was a user installed package it may work but
userswould have to
>>>> manually install it.
>>>> So I'm not sure how else to solve it.
>>> What happen when version of xfce4-panel installed
in system profile is
>>> different from installed in home profile?
>> I think xfce4-panel will be run from $PATH so the
system version will
>> be picked first and the user installed one will be
ignored. The search
>> path will be set but will not work until the user
logs out and back in
>> again, which is not ideal. I'd like a user to be able
to install a plugin
>> and have it appear in the settings menu immediately.
>
> Hello, when the version of xfce4-panel and its plugins
are different,
> xfce4-panel may crash, unable to start. I think it's best
keep them in
> one profile, and prefer user's profile. Well, the polkit
actions need
> installed into the system profile though.
If the user installs XFCE manually in the profile, I'm not
sure it will
find locally installed plugins anyway will it? I haven't
tested it. I
use XFCE installed globally via the service.
With XFCE in the local profile it is not possible for a login
manager to
detect and launch it, so to use it with a login manager it
must be
installed globally, just like on any other distro. I guess
that is
acceptable.
Perhaps it is ok to let the user take responsibility for any
such
incompatibility that may occur?