# This is a terrible idea (at least from the app developer's perspective) # because what we're doing is a massive hack. We're essentially instilling a # forced isolated environment for the settings backend to look into. This will # go downhill very badly once the dconf-enabled wrapper has mismatched # configuration with the wider environment. Once that occurred, this is a # problem neither the app developer nor the system maintainers are to blame but # the user. So yeah, it is terrible to put this into wrapper-manager-fds # upstream and it may be here for the rest of time. # # In other words, dconf is just not built for this case. { lib, pkgs, ... }: let settingsFormat = { type = with lib.types; let valueType = (oneOf [ bool float int str (listOf valueType) ]) // { description = "dconf value"; }; in attrsOf (attrsOf valueType); generate = name: value: pkgs.writeTextDir "/dconf/${name}" (lib.generators.toDconfINI value); }; in { options.wrappers = let dconfSubmodule = { config, lib, name, ... }: let submoduleCfg = config.dconf; dconfProfileFile = pkgs.writeText "dconf-profile" (lib.concatMapStrings (db: "${db}\n") submoduleCfg.profile); dconfSettings = settingsFormat.generate "wrapper-manager-dconf-${config.executableName}-settings" submoduleCfg.settings; keyfilesDir = pkgs.symlinkJoin { name = "wrapper-manager-dconf-${config.executableName}"; paths = submoduleCfg.keyfiles ++ [ "${dconfSettings}/dconf" ]; }; dconfSettingsDatabase = pkgs.runCommand "wrapper-manager-dconf-${config.executableName}-database" { nativeBuildInputs = [ submoduleCfg.package ]; } '' dconf compile ${builtins.placeholder "out"} "${keyfilesDir}" ''; in { options.dconf = { enable = lib.mkEnableOption "configuration with dconf"; package = lib.mkPackageOption pkgs "dconf" { }; settings = lib.mkOption { type = settingsFormat.type; default = { }; description = '' The settings of the dconf database that the wrapper uses. ''; example = lib.literalExpression '' { "org/gnome/nautilus/list-view".use-tree-view = true; "org/gnome/nautilus/preferences".show-create-link = true; "org/gtk/settings/file-chooser" = { sort-directories-first = true; show-hidden = true; }; } ''; }; keyfiles = lib.mkOption { type = with lib.types; listOf path; description = '' Additional list of keyfiles to be included as part of the dconf database. ''; default = [ ]; example = lib.literalExpression '' [ ./config/dconf/90-extra-settings.conf ] ''; }; profile = lib.mkOption { type = with lib.types; listOf str; description = '' A list of dconf databases that will be used for the main dconf profile of the dconf-configured wrapper. ''; default = [ "user-db:user" "file-db:${dconfSettingsDatabase}" ]; defaultText = '' "user-db:user" as the writeable database alongside the generated database file from our settings. ''; }; }; config = lib.mkIf submoduleCfg.enable { env.DCONF_PROFILE.value = dconfProfileFile; }; }; in lib.mkOption { type = with lib.types; attrsOf (submodule dconfSubmodule); }; }