Re: adawaita theme in Gnome

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Catonano <address@hidden> writes:

> So, our skillful thomasd solved an issue I had raised.
>
> In the Gnome desktop, when dragging an application toward the folating bar
> on the left, the whole desktop environment crashes, it restarts and you
> have to log on again.
>
> The problem is a missing mouse cursor, as stated here
> https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-02-23#T1301986
>
> And the proposed workaround works like a charm.
>
> For reference, it is
> 1) "mkdir -p ~/.icons/default"
> 2) "ln -s /run/current-system/profile/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors/
> ~/.icons/default/cursors"
>
> What could be a definitive solution to patch the Gnome package with ?

We cannot (and don’t want to) let Guix packages modify the user’s home
directory.  On my system XDG_DATA_DIRS contains
“/run/current-system/profile/share”.  Is this not enough to let Gnome
find the cursors?

(The “adwaita-icon-theme” package is installed in my system profile.)

~~ Ricardo