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Re: what is the difference among files in /gnu/store
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Gottfried |
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Re: what is the difference among files in /gnu/store |
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Thu, 2 Jun 2022 18:24:20 +0000 |
Hi Julien,
thanks for your explanation
How did you get this list of store items?
I simply used "catfish" to look for "TraditionalGreen" and it gave me
those 4 packages.
The second is the content of a system generation. You probably installed mate
in your system :). The system generation is also the union of packages that you
declared, so it includes mate, and consequently, the theme.
When I installed Guix, it gave me only 3 options of desktops: MATE,
Enlightment and Awesome. That's why I installed all three of them.
I knew only MATE, I didn't know what Enlightment and Awesome was, so I
installed them to get to know them. There was no Gnome, XFCE, KDE ...
available. So I was wondering why some Guixers have e.g. Gnome or XFCE
installed.
Now checking in the Guix Packages I found Gnome and XFCE available, but
no KDE. KDE, AFAIK isn't available at the moment. Is that right?
If possible, please don't use a store path in your configuration. If you update
the system, the new version will be at a different location (even if the
version number is the same, as you've seen with mate-themes). It might get
garbage-collected and will definitely get out of date.
I didn't do anything. It was installed this way when I installed Guix
System.
In which other location Guix will install the new version?
Instead, you should reference a theme by its name only. If mate lets you, try to set the
theme to "TraditionalGreen" and that will always be the latest version.
In my home folder there is a hidden folder with the name
.icons and another one with the name .themes.
I thought that in one ot those my "themes" will be stored.
But when I looked for them, catfish found them in /gnu/store.
Those tho folders are empty.
So if I would be able to install new themes, I thought to install them
there, but I don't know if Guix will find them, because as far as I know
Guix will look in /gnu/store.
Gottfried
"hacking" on the basics
Am 02.06.22 um 07:12 schrieb Julien Lepiller:
Hi Gottfried,
How did you get this list of store items?
The first one comes from "mate". That's a meta-package that contains the union
of a bunch of packages that are needed to run mate.
The second is the content of a system generation. You probably installed mate
in your system :). The system generation is also the union of packages that you
declared, so it includes mate, and consequently, the theme.
The last two are different versions of "mate-themes". I don't know which is
more recent.
If possible, please don't use a store path in your configuration. If you update
the system, the new version will be at a different location (even if the
version number is the same, as you've seen with mate-themes). It might get
garbage-collected and will definitely get out of date.
Instead, you should reference a theme by its name only. If mate lets you, try to set the
theme to "TraditionalGreen" and that will always be the latest version.
HTH!
On June 1, 2022 9:03:39 PM GMT+02:00, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
Hi guixers,
e.g.
I have in my MATE desktop a theme called "TraditionalGreen"
There are several files.
What is the difference?
/gnu/store/09bi02ldaqsykdfi8szv225z4adl98hj-mate-1.24.1/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
/gnu/store/65dvsqhxly3cs33m935amvg1wc38s1ii-system/profile/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
/gnu/store/aqpb71z7nl1jbaxi7q2364x5hm2lsab9-mate-themes-3.22.21/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
/gnu/store/y3cwrifdqvainwddij7zvk0lspvbpsia-mate-themes-3.22.21/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
The 1. and 2. have a different Icon, it has something to do with a link
(Verknüpfung german).
Which one is used for the desktop?
I want to learn the basics!
Gottfried
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