Need help to bring Plasma into GuixSD

[Michael Palimaka]

On 10/20/2017 12:25 AM, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Am 19.10.2017 um 14:57 schrieb Michael Palimaka:
>> Are you able to detail the errors at all? Might get a quicker response
>> that way.
> 
> I didn't want to flood the mailing-list – and we still have some failing
> test-cases which might be worth investigating first.
> 
> But anyway, here are the top-most errors when running startkde:
> 
> ksplash: svgz "unsupported file format"
> 
> Could not load library libkdeinit5_kded5
> Could not load library libkdeinit5_kcminit_startup
> Coult not start kglobalaccel (not provided by any service)
> ksmserver: kcminit not running?
> name "org.kde.kglobalaccel" was not provided by any service
> name "org.de.kcminit"  was not provided by any service
> 
> 
> error loading QML file:
> "org.kde.plasma.extras" is not installed
> "org.kde.plasma.core" is not installed
> "org.kde.plasma.components" is not installed
> "org.kde.plasma.milou" is not installed
> 
> plasmashell: all shell packages missing
> this is an installation issue, please contact your distribution

I wonder if you have a broken installation? Most of these errors look
like they're caused by missing files or path issues.

> 
> 
> Also when building plasma-desktop, kapplymousetheme is not build since
> "X11_Xinput_FOUND" in a CMakeList.txt is false. For I did not yet figure
> out which lib is missing.
> 

Check out FindX11.cmake, it looks like this is checking for
X11/extensions/XInput.h which is provided by libXi.