services.plasma5: Update start menu with an activationScript #42910
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To update the plasma start menu `kbuildsyscoca5` needs to be executed. There are several people complaining about missing applications in their plasma start menu. This patch adds a activationScript for plasma, that runs `kbuildsyscoca5` for each user that has `isNormalUser` == `true`.
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How about patching |
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I would like to have an approach where we don't need to restart the display manager. |
| # Update the start menu for each user that has `isNormalUser` set. | ||
| system.activationScripts.plasmaSetup = stringAfter [ "users" "groups" ] | ||
| (concatStringsSep "\n" | ||
| (mapAttrsToList (name: value: "${pkgs.su}/bin/su ${name} -c kbuildsycoca5") |
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Shouldn't this be a direct path via ${kdeWhatever}/bin/kbuildsycoca5? Does this affect users that aren't running kde (which is possible through a custom ~/.xsession file)?
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Does this affect users that aren't running kde (which is possible through a custom ~/.xsession file)?
This only applies if config.services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable is true so if somebody sets that and then overrides the environment using ~/.xsession it would run even when KDE isn't active.
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@peterhoeg @bkchr What's holding this up? |
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Good question, I think we wait for @ttuegel . But I think that he does not have that much time lately? (based on missing feedback on several of my prs) |
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I noticed this also. They ended up getting merged by someone else eventually... Nudge Nudge @peterhoeg 😄 |
We already do that, but like @bkchr said, we want this to happen without restarting the display manager if the user runs |
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Great! Planned to backport to release-18.03? |
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i am running kde5/plasma, and i am getting this error now on rebuild |
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@nand0p on which version of nixpkgs are you running? Did you had kde/plasma installed before or is this on a fresh install? |
* silence normal output from the command * avoid running it when the data it wants to update is encrypted * specify explicit bash in kbuildsycoca5 su command when the activation script runs at boot time, the users' default shells (typically /run/current-system/sw/bin/bash) will not be available. instead, specify an explicit store path for bash. follow-on to NixOS#42910 and NixOS#44544
To update the plasma start menu
kbuildsyscoca5needs to be executed.There are several people complaining about missing applications in their
plasma start menu.
This patch adds a activationScript for plasma, that runs
kbuildsyscoca5for each user that hasisNormalUser==true.Motivation for this change
#41416
Fixes: #40915
#42548
Things done
@peterhoeg @ttuegel
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