Context: I’m a novice using NixOS.
gEdit (the default GNOME text editor) has two curated sets of plugins: core plugins and the gedit-plugins “package”. Core plugins are distributed along with gEdit and so are available when I get gEdit from nixpkgs
. I’d like to have excess to the “package” part too, though.
I tried the standard way to install gEdit 3rd party plugins locally: just coping sources to ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins
. That didn’t work. I guess, because gEdit doesn’t know about my home directory. What would be the next easiest way to get the plugins working?
I know some other Linux distributions have the gnome-plugins
package available in their software repository. How hard would it be to package them in nixpkgs
? If someone could mentor me in doing that, I’d be interested in looking into it.