While it's a good idea to automate the linting of the python code used
for our tests, I think that it can be quite distracting when hacking on
a NixOS test.
I figured that it might be more convenient to add an option as a
shortcut for this to avoid that everyone needs to dig into the test
driver again.
In hopes of working around
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/60845. This fetches a gz archive
instead of xz and also fetches the archive from a different source,
hopefully avoiding the issue (whatever ist is caused by).
In addition to that, I think that building directly from VCS is
generally cleaner and more flexible for the following reasons:
- It cuts out and unnecessary middle step.
- It makes sure the version users install is equal to the version users
may have vetted.
- It makes it easy to develop patches or bisect changes by simply
checking out a different rev.
- It avoids using upstream-provided "binary" artifacts like those
generated by autotools.
This version is not yet released. However given that python2 will soon
go end-of-life (without security updates), this seems like a good move.
The package was also lacking proper qt wrapping and unusable before.
Wingpanel was designed firstly as an indicator renderer,
and as such just a container for indicators that are distributed
outside itself. Being able to control which and each indicator with
`indicators` is confusing, ideally each of the default indicators
would be shipped with wingpanel itself. I don't see how this
kind of extensibility would be useful to a user so we're going
to append to the expected defaults. The `useDefaultIndicators`
argument is there to development test a single indicator/s.
Also cleanup a bit, we enabled gnome-settings-daemon even when using elementary-settings-daemon.
I wanted the nixos module ascribe the defaults, not these lists in pkgs.
Before, the checkbox for OTP functionality could not be enabled on
NixOS, even when `(pass.withExtensions (exts: [ exts.pass-otp ]))`
was installed correctly.
We've rewritten it use GDM, and we can now autologin
to the X11 session because of the accountsservice preStart
script for autologin. It should work similar to how the wayland
test works, just with a few nuanced differences for xorg.
