Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> So, at this point my inclination is to do the following:
>
> * Add 'dconf' to the propagated-inputs of 'totem', since totem needs
>   dconf services to be available on the user session D-Bus.
>
> * Add a wrapper for 'totem' that add prefixes to both
>   GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH and GRL_PLUGIN_PATH to ensure reliable access
>   to a baseline set of plugins needed for proper functioning of 'totem'.
>   This includes grilo-plugins, gst-plugins-base, and gst-plugins-good.
>   IMO, this hard-coded set of plugins should exclude patent-encumbered
>   codecs, so no gst-libav or gst-plugins-ugly.
>
> Please see the attached 'totem' package.  To simplify things, the values
> of the GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH and GRL_PLUGIN_PATH environment variables
> are taken directly from the build environment (using 'getenv') and
> propagated unchanged into the created wrapper.
>
> What do you think?

Sounds good.  Thanks for moving forward!

Ludo’.