bug#35064: gnome-desktop-service-type does not work

[Jack Hill]

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019, Luther Thompson wrote:

> When doing a reconfigure, I got this message:
>
> /home/luther/config.scm:60:10: warning: 'gnome-desktop-service' is deprecated, 
> use 'gnome-desktop-service-type' instead
>
> So I changed (gnome-desktop-service) to (gnome-desktop-service-type) and got
> this error:
>
> guix system: error: failed to load 'config.scm':
> /home/luther/config.scm:60:10: Wrong type to apply: #<service-type gnome-desktop 
> 1bc6280>

Luther,

What you need here is (service gnome-desktop-service-type). The service 
function will turn the service-type into a service object which is what 
you need in this context.

The documentation for service can be found in the manual 
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Service-Reference.html#Service-Reference>. 
In particular, note that in addition to the service-type service can take 
a value (often the configuration for the service). Since 
gnome-desktop-service-type has a default value, the value can be omitted.

I've closed the bug, since I think this should work when you replace 
(gnome-desktop-service-type) with (service gnome-desktop-service-type), 
but please let us know if you have more questions.

Best,
Jack