bug#35064: gnome-desktop-service-type does not work

[Luther Thompson]

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:35:42 -0400 (EDT)
Jack Hill <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Mar 2019, Luther Thompson wrote:
> 
> > When doing a reconfigure, I got this message:
> >
> > /home/luther/config.scm:60:10: warning: 'gnome-desktop-service' is
> > deprecated, use 'gnome-desktop-service-type' instead
> >
> > So I changed (gnome-desktop-service) to
> > (gnome-desktop-service-type) and got this error:
> >
> > guix system: error: failed to load 'config.scm':
> > /home/luther/config.scm:60:10: Wrong type to apply: #<service-type
> > gnome-desktop 1bc6280>  
> 
> Luther,
> 
> What you need here is (service gnome-desktop-service-type). The
> service function will turn the service-type into a service object
> which is what you need in this context.
> 
> The documentation for service can be found in the manual 
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Service-Reference.html#Service-Reference>.
>  
> In particular, note that in addition to the service-type service can
> take a value (often the configuration for the service). Since 
> gnome-desktop-service-type has a default value, the value can be
> omitted.

Thank you. That seems to work so far.

Luther