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ayushnix / tessen

an interactive menu to autotype and copy pass and gopass data
GNU General Public License v2.0
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using tessen in guix / rde #17

Closed qzdl closed 1 year ago

qzdl commented 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for a nice program.

I am using this in gnu guix, which has a strong emphasis on repeatability and transparency -- as such, would you be open to allowing the specification of binary paths for the menus, as opposed to reading them from PATH?

A discussion about the nature of the use is open here https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-devel/patches/29583

Cheers! Samuel

ayushnix commented 2 years ago

would you be open to allowing the specification of binary paths for the menus, as opposed to reading them from PATH?

Sorry, I didn't get this. Could you elaborate? What are the changes that you're proposing?

A discussion about the nature of the use is open here https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-devel/patches/29583

I'm not familiar with guix but from I could see on that link, you're assuming that tessen will accept arbitrary configuration options for arbitrary dmenu programs. However, as I've mentioned here, the feature to pass arbitrary dmenu backends and arguments will be removed in the next release of tessen, which should be out in the next few days.

So if you want to use bemenu with tessen, tessen will look for the bemenu binary and if $BEMENU_OPTS is set, it'll use that otherwise use a predefined set of options. This will be similar to how tessen behaved in v1.2.3.

ayushnix commented 1 year ago

I'm closing this because I haven't received any response. I've also observed that tessen has been packaged for guix for quite a while now and I haven't received any reports of issues on guix so far. Let me know if there are still any issues about this.