Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: libcanberra: Add propagated-input.

[Ludovic Courtès]

(Sorry for the delay.)

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> I propose to make sound-theme-freedesktop a propagated input of
>>> libcanberra. This is because, according to the XDG sound theme
>>> specification, those event sounds should always be present and used as
>>> fall-back in case other sounds are not present.
>>>
>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec/
>>
>> That’s not the right fix, I think.  For instance, if Evince is installed
>> in a profile, but libcanberra itself is not in the profile, then the
>> sound theme is not pulled and ends up not being used.
>>
>> Would it be possible, instead, to patch libcanberra to refer to the
>> sound-theme directory as its fallback?
>
> The location of the sound theme is specified, among other things, by
> the variable XDG_DATA_DIRS. So, if an application makes use of the
> glib-or-gtk-build-system and has the sounds as inputs, then it should
> find them.  I don't think we need to patch libcanberra in any way.
>
> With my suggestion I was trying to avoid having to specify
> sound-theme-freedesktop in addition to libcanberra in every gtk
> application (as, e.g., evince).
>
> If we make libcanberra a propagated-input of applications like evince,
> then they would automatically know the location of the sounds (by the
> inheritance of propagated inputs).

OK, I understand the plan.

What I had in mind was to instead add sound-theme-freedesktop as an
input to libcanberra, and to patch libcanberra along these untested
lines:

--- libcanberra-0.30/src/sound-theme-spec.c~    2010-02-20 00:39:40.000000000 
+0100
+++ libcanberra-0.30/src/sound-theme-spec.c     2015-01-07 21:08:51.029841980 
+0100
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ int ca_get_data_home(char **e) {
         else if ((env = getenv("HOME")) && *env == '/')
                 subdir = "/.local/share";
         else {
-                *e = NULL;
-                return CA_SUCCESS;
+               subdir = "/gnu/store/...-sound-theme/share";
         }
 
         if (!(r = ca_new(char, strlen(env) + strlen(subdir) + 1)))

I believe this is the simplest approach, and one that is likely to
always work.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.