vicinae: init at 0.15.5 by zstg · Pull Request #451675 · NixOS/nixpkgs

zstg · 2025-10-13T13:45:23Z

Packaged vicinae.

Vicinae (pronounced "vih-SIN-ay") is a high-performance, native launcher for Linux — built with C++ and Qt.

Documentation: https://docs.vicinae.com/

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pkgs/by-name/vi/vicinae/package.nix

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CC @schromp @TomRomeo for review as well

whispersofthedawn · 2025-10-23T14:14:37Z

Have you seen vicinaehq/vicinae#245 by @bendi-github? This PR here seems to be derived from what is available upstream in nix/vicinae.nix, but that PR offers some major simplifications to the derivations. It's out of date, but I've adapted them to the latest version, and it seems to build and run completely fine on my system (x86_64-linux). It might be worth adapting some of the simplifications here and seeing if they help? I've included a possible version below.

Adapted version of vicinae#245

{
  cmake,
  cmark-gfm,
  fetchFromGitHub,
  fetchNpmDeps,
  grpc-tools,
  kdePackages,
  lib,
  libqalculate,
  minizip,
  ninja,
  nodejs,
  npmHooks,
  pkg-config,
  protobuf,
  qt6,
  rapidfuzz-cpp,
  stdenv,
  wayland,
}:
stdenv.mkDerivation (
  finalAttrs:
  let
    apiDeps = fetchNpmDeps {
      src = "${finalAttrs.src}/typescript/api";
      hash = "sha256-dSHEzw15lSRRbldl9PljuWFf2htdG+HgSeKPAB88RBg=";
    };

    extensionManagerDeps = fetchNpmDeps {
      src = "${finalAttrs.src}/typescript/extension-manager";
      hash = "sha256-TCT7uZRZn4rsLA/z2yLeK5Bt4DJPmdSC4zkmuCxTtc8=";
    };
  in
  {
    pname = "vicinae";
    version = "0.15.3";

    src = fetchFromGitHub {
      owner = "vicinaehq";
      repo = "vicinae";
      tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
      hash = "sha256-wmlnRd5/imOkN2g3jiOH4hdblDH6XSrBS7KzOqRhPHc=";
    };

    cmakeFlags = [
      "-DVICINAE_GIT_TAG=v${finalAttrs.version}"
      "-DVICINAE_PROVENANCE=nix"
      "-DINSTALL_NODE_MODULES=OFF"
      "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${placeholder "out"}"
      "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR=share"
      "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR=bin"
      "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib"
    ];

    nativeBuildInputs = [
      cmake
      ninja
      nodejs
      pkg-config
      protobuf
      qt6.wrapQtAppsHook
    ];

    buildInputs = [
      cmark-gfm
      grpc-tools
      kdePackages.layer-shell-qt
      kdePackages.qtkeychain
      libqalculate
      minizip
      nodejs
      protobuf
      qt6.qtbase
      qt6.qtsvg
      qt6.qtwayland
      rapidfuzz-cpp
      wayland
    ];

    postPatch = ''
      local postPatchHooks=()
      	source ${npmHooks.npmConfigHook}/nix-support/setup-hook
      	npmRoot=typescript/api npmDeps=${apiDeps} npmConfigHook
      	npmRoot=typescript/extension-manager npmDeps=${extensionManagerDeps} npmConfigHook
    '';

    postFixup = ''
      wrapProgram "$out/bin/vicinae" --prefix PATH : ${
        lib.makeBinPath [
          nodejs
          (placeholder "out")
        ]
      }
    '';

    meta = {
      description = "A focused launcher for your desktop — native, fast, extensible";
      homepage = "https://github.com/vicinaehq/vicinae";
      license = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
      mainProgram = "vicinae";
      maintainers = [ ];
      platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
    };
  }
)

(As a minor nicety, this also happens to build significantly faster (6m55s vs 17m34s on my machine) for reasons entirely unknown to me.)

schromp · 2025-10-23T21:25:06Z

Have you seen vicinaehq/vicinae#245 by @bendi-github? This PR here seems to be derived from what is available upstream in nix/vicinae.nix, but that PR offers some major simplifications to the derivations. It's out of date, but I've adapted them to the latest version, and it seems to build and run completely fine on my system (x86_64-linux). It might be worth adapting some of the simplifications here and seeing if they help? I've included a possible version below.
Adapted version of vicinae#245

(As a minor nicety, this also happens to build significantly faster (6m55s vs 17m34s on my machine) for reasons entirely unknown to me.)

i agree that we should take this chance to clean up the build.

schromp · 2025-10-23T21:49:02Z

Also the version is outdated already so we should bump that

JohnRTitor · 2025-10-26T06:59:19Z

CC @schromp @dawnofmidnight for review

whispersofthedawn · 2025-10-26T14:58:50Z

pkgs/by-name/vi/vicinae/package.nix

+    description = "A focused launcher for your desktop — native, fast, extensible";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/vicinaehq/vicinae";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ zstg ];


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maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ zstg ];

maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.zstg ];

That's a stylistic change, and will need to be reversed if more maintainers are added later.

Ah okay. I was under the impression that with was generally being phased out (I'm not particularly involved in nixpkgs things), but if that's the norm, sounds good to me.

with lib is being phased out for meta and other attrs. Using with in a smaller scope like meta.maintainers in fine, using it for the whole meta attr isn't.

Anyways, I won't be able to maintain this. I applied the changes as a commiter. And given chaotic-cx/nyx#1220 (comment), would any of you like to co maintain this package?

I'd be willing to handle updates and such if necessary, but I have not maintained nixpkgs packages before, and so would need to be added to the maintainer-list. If you could do that on top of this PR, we can provide a patch, or we could open a quick PR just to add us as a maintainer.

Patch to maintainer list

From 833511c8a8feafc0d05be8a0836bbaa0f7cc4a1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dawnofmidnight <dawnofmidnight@duck.com> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:45:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] maintainers: add dawnofmidnight --- maintainers/maintainer-list.nix | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix index bb777bcd9e45..526567194b82 100644 --- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix +++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix @@ -5960,6 +5960,12 @@ githubId = 49904992; name = "Dawid Sowa"; }; + dawnofmidnight = { + email = "dawnofmidnight@duck.com"; + github = "dawnofmidnight"; + githubId = 78233879; + name = "whispers"; + }; dawoox = { email = "contact@antoinebellanger.fr"; github = "Dawoox"; -- 2.51.0

Done. Feel free to ping me if you want to get an update PR merged.

See NixOS#451675 (comment)

zstg · 2025-10-27T05:12:02Z

Thank you for merging @JohnRTitor . Shall I bump the version to 0.15.6?

JohnRTitor · 2025-10-27T05:53:40Z

Go ahead, you don't need anyone's permission.

Add self to maintainer list

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vicinae: init at 0.15.2 chaotic-cx/nyx#1220

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JohnRTitor changed the title ~~vicinae: init at 0.14.5~~ vicinae: init at 0.15.5 Oct 26, 2025

vicinae: add dawnofmidnight as maintainer

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NixOS: services.vicinae.enable is set to true, but I get the error Vicinae server is not running vicinaehq/vicinae#494

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Starting some applications does nothing when vicinae is installed from cachix vicinaehq/vicinae#533

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vicinae: v0.15.5 -> v0.16.1 #457390

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