feat: add cinnamon #74242

mkg20001 · 2019-11-26T03:10:15Z

Motivation for this change

I need this for myself and I think a lot of people want this, too

NOTE: THIS PR IS WIP
❗ It's been decided that most expressions will be moved out of this PR, and into individual ones.

The packages here are being continued to be developed in https://github.com/mkg20001/nixpkgs and will be moved to PRs to get them ready for upstream

Also, I'm running this on my laptop already. So it works and you can try it already, it's just a bit broken at this point...

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mkg20001 · 2019-11-26T03:16:32Z

I've added the old cinnamon port from the repo before removal & the new cinnamon port https://github.com/cawilliamson/nixos-cinnamon/ from @cawilliamson

Going to merge them together and make a new port, latest going to remove the leftover files

nixos-discourse · 2019-11-26T03:23:13Z

This pull request has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/porting-cinnamon-to-nixos/3512/7

worldofpeace · 2019-11-26T03:46:13Z

I'd be happy to review this/assist 👍

mkg20001 · 2019-11-26T04:38:44Z

I've added services.xserver.desktopManager.cinnamon.enable as an option and referenced cinnamon.nix in desktop-manager/default.nix, yet my local nixbuild fails (evaluation logs show it seems to use my cloned nixpkgs). Any idea?

worldofpeace · 2019-11-26T12:36:44Z

I've added services.xserver.desktopManager.cinnamon.enable as an option and referenced cinnamon.nix in desktop-manager/default.nix, yet my local nixbuild fails (evaluation logs show it seems to use my cloned nixpkgs). Any idea?

I think the module might be a far off idea just yet. I'd probably try to get the packaging very good first and maybe just use some configuration locally to verify their installation. So, I could much better assist with packaging first, as the module might prove more difficult. (but I can for sure help with this as well).

pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/cjs/default.nix

pkgs/desktops/cinnamon-old/cinnamon-control-center.nix

pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix

jtojnar · 2019-11-26T13:44:29Z

pkgs/desktops/nixos-cinnamon/default.nix

+  cinnamon = super.callPackage ./cinnamon { };
+  cinnamon-desktop = super.callPackage ./cinnamon-desktop { };
+  cinnamon-menus = super.callPackage ./cinnamon-menus { };
+  cinnamon-session = super.callPackage ./cinnamon-session { gconf = super.gnome2.GConf; };


Does this still require GConf? It has been deprecated over 8 years ago.

Apparently. I've had to add it again.

pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/xapps/default.nix

mkg20001 · 2019-11-26T13:54:22Z

I think the module might be a far off idea just yet. I'd probably try to get the packaging very good first and maybe just use some configuration locally to verify their installation. So, I could much better assist with packaging first, as the module might prove more difficult. (but I can for sure help with this as well).

Can we keep it now in this PR and I'll move it to another PR later, so we can merge just the packages in this PR?

worldofpeace · 2019-11-26T14:00:30Z

I think the module might be a far off idea just yet. I'd probably try to get the packaging very good first and maybe just use some configuration locally to verify their installation. So, I could much better assist with packaging first, as the module might prove more difficult. (but I can for sure help with this as well).

Can we keep it now in this PR and I'll move it to another PR later, so we can merge just the packages in this PR?

I believe you're suggesting merging packaging first and then a nixos module?
That sounds right, it's an approach we've done for packaging deepin. It would make the reviews smaller and easier to manage.

mkg20001 · 2019-11-27T08:29:27Z

I have trouble adding libnm as a dependency for cinnamon-control-center

I can't find any headers in that package. Are they exposed somewhere else than networkmanager?

This reverts commit 18d7929.

mkg20001 · 2019-12-01T01:18:50Z

That didn't quite work, instead I just copied some code from gnome3 and added it to the module
Now it works

mkg20001 · 2019-12-01T01:25:21Z

In which package is the adwaita theme? Can't find it anywhere, cinnamon depends on it as it's the default theme.

jtojnar · 2019-12-01T01:27:19Z

Adwaita GTK theme is built into GTK.

mkg20001 · 2019-12-01T02:16:55Z

This PR should be ready now.

mkg20001 · 2019-12-01T04:41:27Z

Cinnamon, with fonts, theme & icons fixed

worldofpeace · 2019-12-03T22:52:36Z

Ok, there's still quite a few issues here. Mostly when it comes to the gobject-introspection using packages. I should have some time this week or later to review just those.

While I'm here, why's there a cinnamon-old directory?

worldofpeace · 2019-12-03T22:56:19Z

nixos/modules/services/x11/desktop-managers/cinnamon.nix

+    services.xserver.desktopManager.session = [
+      {
+        name = "cinnamon";
+        bgSupport = true;
+        start = ''
+          ${pkgs.runtimeShell} ${pkgs.cinnamon.cinnamon-common}/bin/cinnamon-session-cinnamon &
+          waitPID=$!
+        '';
+      }
+      {
+        name = "cinnamon2d";
+        bgSupport = true;
+        start = ''
+          ${pkgs.runtimeShell} ${pkgs.cinnamon.cinnamon-common}/bin/cinnamon-session-cinnamon2d &
+          waitPID=$!
+        '';
+      }
+    ];
+  };


I'm assuming that cinnamon has some sort of upstream xsession file?
Then we could use services.xserver.displayManager.extraSessionFilePackages and not create a session manually.

Yes, they just reference a wrong path

Exec=cinnamon-session-cinnamon2d TryExec=/usr/bin/cinnamon2d

jonringer · 2019-12-04T00:59:50Z

do you mind cleaning up the commit history? there should rougly be a commit per package change, so multiple fixes should be squashed

git rebase -i will be your very dear friend

worldofpeace · 2019-12-04T01:28:37Z

do you mind cleaning up the commit history? there should rougly be a commit per package change, so multiple fixes should be squashed

git rebase -i will be your very dear friend

I haven't suggested a particular commit history because it's very wip.
I'm fine with at least the commits coming in a way where it's changes per package so I can review them properly. In the end, cinnamon: init at some_version is fine with me very new package sets.
Though I'm not opposed to it being a commit per package 😄 But at that point I'd reset and recreate the callPackage file from scratch.

jonringer · 2019-12-04T02:02:49Z

actually, I think moving some of these things into other PRs may help on being able to review the changes in a timely manner, some of things that can be refactored to other PRs because they don't rely on other cinnamon packages:

add to maintainers list
xapp
cinnamon-old/cjs
cinnamon/cjs
cinnamon/muffin
cinnamon-control-center
cinnamon-menus
cinnamon-screen-saver'

if i were to do a thorough review of this PR, it would be very difficult to adhere to CONTRIBUTING standards

worldofpeace · 2019-12-04T02:09:12Z

actually, I think moving some of these things into other PRs may help on being able to review the changes in a timely manner, some of things that can be refactored to other PRs because they don't rely on other cinnamon packages:
* add to maintainers list

* xapp

* cinnamon-old/cjs

* cinnamon/cjs

* cinnamon/muffin

* cinnamon-control-center

* cinnamon-menus

* cinnamon-screen-saver'
if i were to do a thorough review of this PR, it would be very difficult to adhere to CONTRIBUTING standards

It seems we established on #74242 (comment).
Though what you've suggested is much better though, it allows reviewers to review less in a sense.
(we've done that for deepin #59023, so things do actually get committed)

mkg20001 · 2019-12-04T02:29:02Z

So we could keep this PR as the "incubator" and then move things to other PRs for finalization, eventually moving everything from this PR into seperate PRs?

mkg20001 · 2019-12-04T02:30:05Z

While I'm here, why's there a cinnamon-old directory?

It's some older port of cinnamon

I'll look through those to find fixes to issues I have, since I've based off another cinnamon port. (nixos-cinnamon, and cinnamon-old is the old cinnamon from nixpkgs)

mkg20001 · 2019-12-07T07:13:35Z

I've created #75138 with just the xapps package. Please review 😄

worldofpeace · 2019-12-07T09:04:20Z

@mkg20001, that sounds cool. As long as review doesn't get duplicated, I'll expect you moving your expressions into nixpkgs piece by piece from here.

Edit: I've updated the description so as to encourage review on the individual PRs.

mkg20001 · 2019-12-13T09:20:47Z

I'm still working on the other cinnamon packages in parallel in https://github.com/mkg20001/nixpkgs (this is where I keep all the stuff that is going to be up streamed eventually)

Edit: The reason because I don't want to push it into this PR, is because it's a gigantic mixture of all the patches and it would be too much effort to split commits, since I'd need to pull them in for testing everytime

I've stumbled upon #9415 because cinnamon fails to load opengl and that seems to be the reason

Also some module fails to find network manager libraries, so some NM stuff is still broken and it can't find adwaita (which package is it in? I've already added gtk3, unsure if I added it to the right package as build input)

Aside from that I've got the desktop working so far without bugs, just the cinnamon spices & nemo extensions are missing

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mkg20001 · 2020-09-08T12:40:23Z

merged with #97256

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This reverts commit 18d7929.

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Motivation for this change

The packages here are being continued to be developed in https://github.com/mkg20001/nixpkgs and will be moved to PRs to get them ready for upstream

Also, I'm running this on my laptop already. So it works and you can try it already, it's just a bit broken at this point...

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