gnome3.gsettings_desktop_schemas: do not depend on gnome-backgrounds

We intend to make all GTK apps depend on the desktop schemas. Since
the schemas depend on gnome-backgrounds to determine the default
wallpaper path, it would increase the closure size significantly
for smaller apps.

We could split out the org.gnome.desktop.background and screensaver
schemas but that would make the packaging unnecessarily complicated.
Instead we remove the backgrounds dependency since they are not used
(outside of GNOME) or they will be replaced by a different set by
the NixOS module. There will be no background when running GNOME
manually but that can be easily fixed.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gsettings-desktop-schemas/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gsettings-desktop-schemas/default.nix
index 5123cadbdafd..977dd7ffd6fb 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gsettings-desktop-schemas/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gsettings-desktop-schemas/default.nix
@@ -5,11 +5,15 @@
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   inherit (import ./src.nix fetchurl) name src;
 
-  postPatch = ''
-    for file in "background" "screensaver"; do
-      substituteInPlace "schemas/org.gnome.desktop.$file.gschema.xml.in" \
-        --replace "@datadir@" "${gnome3.gnome-backgrounds}/share/"
-    done
+  preInstall = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/share/gsettings-schemas/${name}/glib-2.0/schemas
+    cat - > $out/share/gsettings-schemas/${name}/glib-2.0/schemas/remove-backgrounds.gschema.override <<- EOF
+      [org.gnome.desktop.background]
+      picture-uri='''
+
+      [org.gnome.desktop.screensaver]
+      picture-uri='''
+    EOF
   '';
 
   buildInputs = [ glib gobjectIntrospection ];