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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index ad018ffc8e..2289d8201d 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017 Chris Marusich@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017 Efraim Flashner@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 John Darrington@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2016 ng0@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017 ng0@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017 Jan Nieuwenhuizen@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Julien Lepiller@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Alex ter Weele@* @@ -12106,7 +12106,7 @@ The @code{(gnu services desktop)} module provides services that are usually useful in the context of a ``desktop'' setup---that is, on a machine running a graphical display server, possibly with graphical user interfaces, etc. It also defines services that provide specific desktop -environments like GNOME and XFCE. +environments like GNOME, XFCE or MATE. To simplify things, the module defines a variable containing the set of services that users typically expect on a machine with a graphical @@ -12131,9 +12131,10 @@ The @var{%desktop-services} variable can be used as the @code{services} field of an @code{operating-system} declaration (@pxref{operating-system Reference, @code{services}}). -Additionally, the @code{gnome-desktop-service} and -@code{xfce-desktop-service} procedures can add GNOME and/or XFCE to a -system. To ``add GNOME'' means that system-level services like the +Additionally, the @code{gnome-desktop-service}, +@code{xfce-desktop-service} and @code{mate-desktop-service} +procedures can add GNOME, XFCE and/or MATE to a system. +To ``add GNOME'' means that system-level services like the backlight adjustment helpers and the power management utilities are added to the system, extending @code{polkit} and @code{dbus} appropriately, allowing GNOME to operate with elevated privileges on a @@ -12144,6 +12145,11 @@ not only adds the @code{xfce} metapackage to the system profile, but it also gives the Thunar file manager the ability to open a ``root-mode'' file management window, if the user authenticates using the administrator's password via the standard polkit graphical interface. +To ``add MATE'' means that @code{polkit} and @code{dbus} are extended +appropriately, allowing MATE to operate with elevated privileges on a +limited number of special-purpose system interfaces. Additionally, +adding a service made by @code{mate-desktop-service} adds the MATE +metapackage to the system profile. @deffn {Scheme Procedure} gnome-desktop-service Return a service that adds the @code{gnome} package to the system @@ -12158,9 +12164,15 @@ file system as root from within a user session, after the user has authenticated with the administrator's password. @end deffn -Because the GNOME and XFCE desktop services pull in so many packages, +@deffn {Scheme Procedure} mate-desktop-service +Return a service that adds the @code{mate} package to the system +profile, and extends polkit with the actions from +@code{mate-settings-daemon}. +@end deffn + +Because the GNOME, XFCE and MATE desktop services pull in so many packages, the default @code{%desktop-services} variable doesn't include either of -them by default. To add GNOME or XFCE, just @code{cons} them onto +them by default. To add GNOME, XFCE orMATE, just @code{cons} them onto @code{%desktop-services} in the @code{services} field of your @code{operating-system}: |