[bug#34971] [PATCH] gnu: Add mako.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Meiyo Peng <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> If you have trouble running mako and mako gives you an error message
>>> like:
>>>
>>> #+begin_example
>>>   Failed to connect to user bus: No such file or directory
>>> #+end_example
>>
>> I would expect Mako to automatically spawn the D-Bus user bus if it’s
>> not already needed, no?  We don’t need to do anything special with other
>> D-Bus applications AFAIK.
>
> When the desktop environment has a D-Bus session daemon, this should
> just work.  I suppose using dbus-lauch is necessary in cases where a
> minimalist desktop environment is used that does not take steps to
> launch/configure the D-Bus daemon.

I thought along these lines, but then I use Ratpoison and D-Bus programs
“just work” for me.  There’s no DBUS_SESSION_BUS_whatever environment
variable set for me.  I’m curious!

Ludo’.