Re: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: transmission-gtk: Add icon dependencies.

[Leo Famulari]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 06:15:11PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > * gnu/packages/bittorrent.scm (transmission)[inputs]: Add
> > adwaita-icon-theme and hicolor-icon-theme.
> 
> I don’t think we should take that route, because we would end up doing
> that for each and every GTK+ package.

If it's true that all GTK+ packages depend on these icons, would it make
sense to alter the glib-or-gtk-build-system to provide them?

> 
> However, we could:
> 
>   1. On GuixSD, arrange so that these two things are automatically
>      installed as part of %desktop-services.
> 
>   2. Augment “Application Setup” to suggest installing icon theme when
>      using Guix on foreign distros.

I have adwaita-icon-theme and hicolor-icon-theme in my profile, but when
running transmission-gtk, it complains on stderr about problems with
both icon themes and has no icons at all:

--start-example- 
(transmission-gtk:21008): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 
'document-open'. The 'hicolor' theme
was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.

(transmission-gtk:20986): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 
'network-idle' for stock: Icon 'network-idle' not present in theme Adwaita
--end-example--

Is this working for anyone else?

I haven't found a way to provide the correct paths at build time, but
I'm not very familiar with this build system.

> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Ludo’.