Bug 652584 – gnome-base/gnome-shell: Broken gnome-shell-perf-tool from multiple python support

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Mart Raudsepp 2018-04-05 11:42:35 UTC]

Our multiple python support moves the gnome-shell-perf-tool script to /usr/lib/python-exec/python3.*/ (multiple if multiple pythons supported) and /usr/bin/gnome-shell-perf-tool is the python-exec-c wrapper.
However gnome-shell-perf-tool executes gnome-shell itself, from the directory gnome-shell-perf-tool itself is in. Because this isn't /usr/bin/ in our case, it fails to work at all.

We should fix that, and maybe consider using python-single instead (maybe that in itself solves it as a side-effect by keeping gnome-shell-perf-tool itself in /usr/bin), as neither gnome-shell-perf-tool nor gnome-shell-extension-tool seem to be anything that ships modules, to actually need to be with multiple python support. They are just a perf-tool script and an extensions configuration dialog written in python.

[Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp 2018-04-05 12:04:33 UTC]

actually gnome-shell-extension-tool is for command line enable/disable/reload/create of extensions; must have checked the wrong tab completion or something. At any rate, that one works, at least the disable/enable/reload part (including with python3.6 that I tested for 3.6. But no reason for that to be multi-python either.
Probably not going to bother with python-single for 3.24, but on some 3.26 or 3.28 bump; might have to deal with meson conversion too then (though I believe 3.26 is still autotools)

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2018-04-05 21:50:30 UTC]

It's broken for a long time :(

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 553966 ***

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2018-04-11 08:28:12 UTC]

*** Bug 652946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***