Categories not showing about nwg-drawer

[nwg-piotr]

I checked /usr/share/nwg-drawer and I do have all the necessary files in the desktop-directories directory. On both machines, I use default settings without any modification.

That's where we take category names from. We would need a special program version to debug this issue, and you'd have to build it locally, run, and show me the output. Would you like me to prepare it?

I also noticed that on thinkcentre, nwg-drawer automatically copies drawer.css to my local config folder, even after I try to delete it. This was not the case on my thinkpad.

It's expected behavior. It should always be like this. You can edit the file, but if you delete it, it'll be re-created.

[phdpe]

We would need a special program version to debug this issue, and you'd have to build it locally, run, and show me the output. Would you like me to prepare it?

Yes, please. I can try to build locally.

[nwg-piotr]

OK. Now you need to:

1. Kill your running instance of nwg-drawer, if any: pkill -f nwg-drawer
2. Clone the check69 branch: git clone https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-drawer.git -b check69
3. cd nwg-drawer
4. Run the program w/ the debug flag: go run . -d (it may take quite a lot of time at the first try)
5. Show me the terminal output.

[phdpe]

here it is... it seems like (1) even though it says it was copying the css file to local folder, it did not (2) it was looking for dir files in local folder as well.

# github.com/gotk3/gotk3/glib
cgo-gcc-prolog: In function ‘_cgo_200740c87a77_Cfunc_g_binding_get_source’:
cgo-gcc-prolog:71:2: warning: ‘g_binding_get_source’ is deprecated: Use 'g_binding_dup_source' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h:22,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gioenums.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/giotypes.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gio.h:26,
                 from ../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/gotk3/[email protected]/glib/gbinding.go:3:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gbinding.h:113:23: note: declared here
  113 | GObject *             g_binding_get_source          (GBinding *binding);
      |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cgo-gcc-prolog: In function ‘_cgo_200740c87a77_Cfunc_g_binding_get_target’:
cgo-gcc-prolog:107:2: warning: ‘g_binding_get_target’ is deprecated: Use 'g_binding_dup_target' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gbinding.h:117:23: note: declared here
  117 | GObject *             g_binding_get_target          (GBinding *binding);
      |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=info msg="term: xterm-256color"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=info msg="lang: en_US"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=info msg="Config dir: /home/user/.config/nwg-drawer"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=info msg="Copying file: /home/user/.config/nwg-drawer/drawer.css"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=info msg="Found 0 pinned items"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=debug msg="Desktop dirs location: /home/user/.local/share/nwg-drawer/desktop-directories"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=error msg="Couldn't open /home/user/.local/share/nwg-drawer/desktop-directories/utility.directory"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=error msg="Couldn't open /home/user/.local/share/nwg-drawer/desktop-directories/development.directory"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=error msg="Couldn't open /home/user/.local/share/nwg-drawer/desktop-directories/game.directory"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=error msg="Couldn't open /home/user/.local/share/nwg-drawer/desktop-directories/graphics.directory"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=error msg="Couldn't open /home/user/.local/share/nwg-drawer/desktop-directories/internet-and-network.directory"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=error msg="Couldn't open /home/user/.local/share/nwg-drawer/desktop-directories/office.directory"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=error msg="Couldn't open /home/user/.local/share/nwg-drawer/desktop-directories/audio-video.directory"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=error msg="Couldn't open /home/user/.local/share/nwg-drawer/desktop-directories/system-tools.directory"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=error msg="Couldn't open /home/user/.local/share/nwg-drawer/desktop-directories/other.directory"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=info msg="Found 31 desktop files"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=info msg="Skipped 0 duplicates; 7 .desktop entries hidden by \"NoDisplay=true\""
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=info msg="/home/user/.config/nwg-drawer/preferred-apps.json file not found"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:31-04:00" level=info msg="/home/user/.config/nwg-drawer/excluded-dirs file not found"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:32-04:00" level=info msg="Preferring dark theme variants"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:32-04:00" level=error msg="ERROR: /home/user/.config/nwg-drawer/drawer.css css file not found or erroneous. Using GTK styling."
time="2022-09-20T17:15:32-04:00" level=error msg="<broken file>:1:0Failed to import: Error opening file /home/user/.config/nwg-drawer/drawer.css: No such file or directory"
time="2022-09-20T17:15:32-04:00" level=warning msg="/home/user/.config/user-dirs.dirs file not found, using defaults"

** (nwg-drawer:93344): WARNING **: 17:15:32.043: gtk-layer-shell v0.7.0 may not work on GTK v3.24.34. If you experience crashes, check https://github.com/wmww/gtk-layer-shell/blob/master/compatibility.md
time="2022-09-20T17:15:32-04:00" level=info msg="UI created in 89 ms. Thank you for your patience."

[nwg-piotr]

At 1: It works on my side.
At 2: When installed as the AUR package, it should be on its place. See PKGBUILD.

[phdpe]

PKGBUILD showed it only copies to /usr/share/nwg-drawer/, am I correct? It doesnt copy all the dir files to .local/share/nwg-drawer. Once I copy all the directory files to ~/.local/share/nwg-drawer, all the dirs show up correctly.

package() {
  cd "$srcdir"
  install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/share/"$pkgname"/desktop-directories
  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/"$pkgname"/desktop-directories/ "$pkgname"-"$pkgver"/desktop-directories/*
  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/"$pkgname" "$pkgname"-"$pkgver"/drawer.css
  install -Dm755 -t "$pkgdir"/usr/bin "$pkgname"-"$pkgver"/bin/"$pkgname"
}

[nwg-piotr]

We don't use .local/share/nwg-drawer.

func setUpCategories() {
	p := filepath.Join(getDataHome(), "nwg-drawer/desktop-directories")

and getDataHome() is as below:

func getDataHome() string {
	if os.Getenv("XDG_DATA_HOME") != "" {
		return os.Getenv("XDG_DATA_HOME")
	}
	return "/usr/share/"
}

Anything wrong with your XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable?

[edit] Hmmm, it seems it should point to $HOME/.local/share...

[phdpe]

it's set to $HOME/.local/share in fish. It seems like your code is pointing to local.

set -gx XDG_DATA_HOME $HOME/.local/share

[nwg-piotr]

It seems the code is wrong, and it shows up if you set the XDG_DATA_HOME variable.

[phdpe]

[edit] Hmmm, it seems it should point to $HOME/.local/share...

Yeah... since I have it set, it's looking for XDG_DATA_HOME rather than XDG_DATA_DIRS

[nwg-piotr]

Alright, I'll give up on the env variable, and use the usr/share/ path. What do you think?

[phdpe]

Alright, I'll give up on the env variable, and use the usr/share/ path. What do you think?

I cant make the decision as I have next to zero development experience. I'm just glad to find a bug!

[nwg-piotr]

I need a coffee to make a decision. One way or another, thanks for pointing out the bug.

[nwg-piotr]

It should be alright now, or at least I hope so. Can't release yet, as I fixed some deprecation errors, that appeared in Go 1.19. It needs a couple of days of testing.