Replaces #7676
When building as a flatpak, don't install the systemd user services
since flatpaks can't use them. Remove references to the systemd service
from the DBus service.
Also, customize the app metadata depending on the debug mode.
Co-authored-by: Leorize <leorize+oss@disroot.org>
This replaces #7433. The improvements are:
1) Install the systemd user service in the proper directory depending
on if it's a 'user' install or a 'system' install. This is controlled
either by using the `--system` build flag (as most packages will) or by
the `-Dsystem-package` flag.
2) Add the absolute path to the `ghostty` binary in the application
file, the DBus service, and the systemd user service. This is done so
that they do not depend on `ghostty` being in the `PATH` of whatever
is launching Ghostty. That `PATH` is not necessarily the same as the
`PATH` in a user shell (especially for DBus activation and systemd user
services).
3) Adjust the DBus bus name that is expected by the system depending on
the optimization level that Ghostty is compiled with.
Reverts two commits:
977cd530c7bb9551de93900170bdaec4601b1b5b
820b7e432b57cd08c49d2e76cce4cb78016f0418
These break build from source on Linux for two reasons:
1.) The systemd user service needs to be installed in the `share`
prefix, not the `lib` prefix. This lets it get picked up in `~/.local`
but is also correct for just standard FHS paths.
2.) The `ghostty` path in the systemd user service needs to be absolute.
We should interpolate in the build install prefix to form an absolute
path.
This should make testing Flatpak builds a lot easier.
To build, enter `flatpak/` directory and run:
flatpak-builder --repo=repo builddir com.mitchellh.ghostty.yml
alternatively, using org.flatpak.Builder flatpak:
flatpak run -p org.flatpak.Builder \
--repo=repo \
builddir \
com.mitchellh.ghostty.yml
The resulting flatpak can be installed using
flatpak install ./repo com.mitchellh.ghostty
Credit of AppStream metadata goes to @yorickpeterse.
Removed check for plasma in build.zig, it installs it anyways now
Added executable permissions for ghostty_dolphin.desktop since Plasma
requires them for context menu items
The app.desktop file shipped with the default build presumes the install
location of the binary. Let the OS determine the executable through it's
normal PATH variables.
Flatpak support has been a HUGE pain to keep working, the builds take
forever and cost me real money, and there are very few users. Ideally,
we want to just use native system packagers for each distro. I thought
Flatpak would make it easy to support many distros but that ended up
being false.
Inspired by #413.
This modifies the .desktop files so that it's possible to right-click on
the Ghostty icon in a dock and get the "New window" action.
Apparently this is how you implement that in GTK applications. In order
for us to also get "New tab", we'd have to implement a CLI flag, I
think.
