Please describe the problem.
I tried now for hours to understand why the filemanager inegration is just not working. Debug output in Assistent/Install.hs is basically none existent so I don't even know if anything is run at all. There is no dedicated process to get the .desktop files etc created or an example that you could use if the process fails. I'm out of ideas now.
I tried running with GIT_ANNEX_PACKAGE_INSTALL=1 and without, tried to ensure directories exist.
What steps will reproduce the problem?
git annex assistant
What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
nixos
git-annex version: 6.20171003 build flags: Assistant Webapp Pairing S3(multipartupload)(storageclasses) WebDAV Inotify DBus DesktopNotify ConcurrentOutput TorrentParser MagicMime Feeds Quvi dependency versions: aws-0.16 bloomfilter-2.0.1.0 cryptonite-0.23 DAV-1.3.1 feed-0.3.12.0 ghc-8.0.2 http-client-0.5.7.0 persistent-sqlite-2.6.2 torrent-10000.1.1 uuid-1.3.13 yesod-1.4.5 key/value backends: SHA256E SHA256 SHA512E SHA512 SHA224E SHA224 SHA384E SHA384 SHA3_256E SHA3_256 SHA3_512E SHA3_512 SHA3_224E SHA3_224 SHA3_384E SHA3_384 SKEIN256E SKEIN256 SKEIN512E SKEIN512 SHA1E SHA1 MD5E MD5 WORM URL remote types: git gcrypt p2p S3 bup directory rsync web bittorrent webdav tahoe glacier ddar hook external local repository version: 5 supported repository versions: 3 5 6 upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2 3 4 5 operating system: linux x86_64
Please provide any additional information below.
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Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)
yes
Did you install git-annex from the nix package?
The desktop file is supposed to be shipped with the OS's package of git-annex, in /etc so it's available for file managers to use as soon as it's installed.
make installarranges for that to happen.If nix is building git-annex in some other way, they may be leaving out such ancillary files. (And from what I know of nix, there would be some complication providing files in /etc.)
The other way the desktop file is installed was added for the git-annex standalone bundle, and installs it into the home directory of the user who starts the git-annex webapp. You've correctly identified the (undocumented)
GIT_ANNEX_PACKAGE_INSTALL=1that informs git-annex that it's running in such a situation. But there's also aGIT_ANNEX_APP_BASEthat it expects to point to where the standalone bundle is located (in order to use an icon file from there in the desktop file), and it doesn't install the desktop file when that's not set.I think that the nix package maintainer should be looped into this, so we can come up with some solution that works out of the box with those packages.