[ISSUE] Package request: Worker file manager

[ISSUE] Package request: Worker file manager

[paoloschi]

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New issue by paoloschi on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/45711

Description:
### Package name

Worker

### Package homepage

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/

### Description

Worker is a "GNU General Public License V2 or later" two independent pane file manager. It comes with full keyboard control, history, VFS support, live filtering, text viewer, file search, bookmarks, volume manager, breadcrumb navigation, virtual directories, compare directories and more...

I consider it one of the very few acceptable alternatives for those who are accustomed to SpaceFM that it would need some fixing now but is no longer maintained upstream: https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm/issues/800


### Does the requested package meet the package requirements?

System, Compiled

### Is the requested package released?

Yes

Re: Package request: Worker file manager

[mtboehlke]

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New comment by mtboehlke on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/45711#issuecomment-1696684056

Comment:
I have overlooked this file manager in the past, but given your request I gave it a second look and quite liked it.  Let me know if you have a chance to test the PR.

Re: Package request: Worker file manager

[paoloschi]

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New comment by paoloschi on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/45711#issuecomment-1697100795

Comment:
> Let me know if you have a chance to test the PR.

Thank you for your efforts in packaging Worker
Sorry but at the present time I no longer have an xbps-src environment to be able to test your template right now.

About Worker, I'm just disappointed it relies on udisks and therefore also on PolicyKit; to say: in xbps.conf I have the `ignorepkg=polkit` directive, which now, however, I would have to remove in order to install the worker package. :-/

I had thought about contacting the Worker developer to suggest udevil as an udisks alternative but then I realized that udevil is also abandoned software now, just like SpaceFM...

Re: Package request: Worker file manager

[mtboehlke]

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New comment by mtboehlke on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/45711#issuecomment-1698113016

Comment:
> Sorry but at the present time I no longer have an xbps-src environment to be able to test your template right now.

Not a problem :)

> I would have to remove in order to install the worker package. :-/

For better or worse, polkit does seem to be the accepted method for unprivileged desktop programs to access privileged actions.  That being said, udisks2 is only a runtime dependency for the package, so you can add `ignorepkg=udisks2` to your xbps.conf.  The volume manager will still use `mount` for mounting fstab entries.  And yeah, I don't use polkit either.

Worker does constantly complain on the command line if it can't connect to the system bus when I don't have the dbus service enabled :-/

Re: Package request: Worker file manager

[paoloschi]

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New comment by paoloschi on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/45711#issuecomment-1698634875

Comment:
> udisks2 is only a runtime dependency for the package, so you can add `ignorepkg=udisks2` to your xbps.conf.

oh, good!

> Worker does constantly complain on the command line if it can't connect to the system bus when I don't have the dbus service enabled :-/

Same here when I tried Worker by compiling it with `./configure & make` and I don't see anything in Worker's documentation describing interprocess functionalities.
To understand and solve some glitches, will it be appropriate to contact the developer at some point?

Re: Package request: Worker file manager

[paoloschi]

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New comment by paoloschi on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/45711#issuecomment-1699630910

Comment:
Today I subscribed to the _Workerfm-users_ mailing list and mentioned dBus messages in the terminal.
I received this single reply at the time:

> hi,
> 
> as a user:
> 
> if compiling worker there's an option to remove dbus support:
> ./configure --without-dbus
> 
> there are other options see 
> ./configure --help
> 
> 
> if removing dbus & hal some drives/flash drives removable media aren't
> updated as often in the volume manager, yet it is quite usable anyway,
> since there a trigger to "update list" in the volume manager.
> the volume manager displays a list of mount points, I don't know how
> yet it works. 
> related packages  hal and udisk2 packages are not required, can
>  be uninstalled.  
> 
> in the config window there's an entry :
> experts settings > Volume manager settings
> it could matter to adapt some the config there to get it to do its
> things.
> 
> 
> have a great day,
> rno
> noospot.dynv6.net
     

Re: Package request: Worker file manager

[paoloschi]

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New comment by paoloschi on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/45711#issuecomment-1868249987

Comment:
> Worker does constantly complain on the command line if it can't connect to the system bus when I don't have the dbus service enabled :-/

if it is still of interest, Worker 5.0.0 has just been released and within the changelog:
    
    ** fixes:
    
      [...]
      - if the dbus server is not available, reconnects are no longer
        tried over and over again, avoiding failure ouputs. Instead,
        the volume manager allows to reconnect manually.

Re: Package request: Worker file manager

[mtboehlke]

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New comment by mtboehlke on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/45711#issuecomment-1868375195

Comment:
Thanks!  I will update my PR and give it a try.