xdg-app and gtkmm

[Alexander Larsson]

On tis, 2015-12-08 at 08:38 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On mån, 2015-12-07 at 15:04 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 10:11 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > 
> > [snip]
> > > > Instead, my current work is about tooling to make it easy to
> > > > bundle
> > > > things. I just landed the xdg-app-builder tool in git, which
> > > > takes
> > > > a
> > > > simple json file and builds your apps dependencies, with the
> > > > goal
> > > > of
> > > > moving all the metadata used for this to the indiviual
> > > > upstreams
> > > > of
> > > > the
> > > > modules you depend on.
> > > 
> > > Oh, and for example, take a look at the new nightlty build recipe
> > > for
> > > inkscape using this, which includes gtkmm:
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/alexlarsson/nightly-build-apps/blob/master/org
> > > .i
> > > nk
> > > scape.InkscapeDevel.json
> > 
> > Thanks. So I got xdg-app-builder working fairly painlessly for a
> > little
> > toy gtkmm project:
> > https://github.com/murraycu/prefixsuffix/blob/master/manifest.json
> 
> Cool. Although you can probably remove this:
>     "desktop-file-name-prefix": "(Nightly) ",
> 
> Unless you're using this to create nightly builds.
> 
> > I put it here:
> > http://murraycu.github.io/prefixsuffix/repo/
> > 
> > by doing this:
> > 
> > $ xdg-app-builder --require-changes app manifest.json
> > $ sudo mkdir -p /repos/prefixsuffix
> > $ sudo chown murrayc:murrayc /repos/prefixsuffix
> > $ xdg-app build-export /repos/prefixsuffix app
> > $ xdg-app repo-update /repos/prefixsuffix
> > 
> > Then I copied all of /repos/prefixsuffix/* into the repo/ directory
> > that appears on the website.
> > 
> > Should I be using my own GPG key to sign it, or is there some way
> > to
> > create a GPG key for the project, and is that wise?
> > 
> > 
> > Also, my app doesn't actually run. Is it obvious what I'm doing
> > wrong?
> > 
> > $ xdg-app run org.gnome.PrefixSuffix
> > 
> > ** (prefixsuffix:2): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility
> > bus:
> > Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-FwMNfBewZv: Connection
> > refused
> > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
> > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
> > Failed to register:
> > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:
> > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
> 
> Yeah, this is failing to register the dbus name
> "org.prefixsuffix.application", because the sandboxed app is only
> allowed to own names of the form "org.gnome.PrefixSuffix" and
> "org.gnome.PrefixSuffix.*". This is to avoid conflicts with other
> apps
> and with host services. You need to rename the app (or change the
> code
> to use the new dbus name).

I would actually recommend neither, instead change both to use a domain
you control. For instance "io.github.murraycu.PrefixSuffix".

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