bug#68483: Qutebrowser QT platform plugin could not be initialized

[Sergey Trofimov]

Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 16 2024, Sergey Trofimov wrote:
>
> > > Would this work with non-wayland users too?  (So that it would 
> > > make
> > > sense to add it to the main package?)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Clément
> >
> > Yeah, it would work, but forcing the platform through 
> > parameters is not
> > necessary. I added it just to be sure that wayland is being 
> > used instead of
> > xcb. On the other hand I think adding qtwayland dependency to 
> > every qt-based
> > gui program doesn't make sense. Maybe a qtwayland-home-service 
> > makes more
> > sense which would install the dependency and set required 
> > environment
> > variables. This way it would work for every Qt GUI program on 
> > wayland.
>
> Ok, I see, thanks!

As simple as:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(simple-service 'qtwayland-vars-service
 home-environment-variables-service-type
  `(("QT_PLUGIN_PATH" . ,(file-append qtwayland 
  "/lib/qt6/plugins"))
    ("QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH" . ,(file-append qtwayland 
    "/lib/qt6/plugins/platforms"))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---