[Nix-dev] Desktop environments (KDE, XFCE) and ~/.nix-profile/share/applications

Yury G. Kudryashov urkud.urkud at gmail.com
Thu May 3 17:49:56 CEST 2012


Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I notice that when installing apps on a per-user basis using nix-env,
> the desktop shortcuts (symlinked to ~/.nix-profile/share/applications)
> do not get indexed by kbuildsycoca4 and thus do not end up in the menu
> (I've not tested this with XFCE yet).
> 
> Should this directory be indexed by default, similar to how
> ~/.local/share/applications is indexed? It'd make the desktop experience
> feel more integrated.
$ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
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