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<itemizedlist>
<listitem xml:id="ssec-gnome-common-issues-unwrappable-package-gnome-shell-ext">
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/65000c0ff8f31b982c59fd65ab5421251239df4c/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gnome-shell-extensions/default.nix#L21-L24">Replacing a <envar>GI_TYPELIB_PATH</envar> in GNOME Shell extension</link> – we are using <function>substituteAll</function> to include the path to a typelib into a patch.
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/7bb8f05f12ca3cff9da72b56caa2f7472d5732bc/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gnome-shell-extensions/default.nix#L21-L24">Replacing a <envar>GI_TYPELIB_PATH</envar> in GNOME Shell extension</link> – we are using <function>substituteAll</function> to include the path to a typelib into a patch.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem xml:id="ssec-gnome-common-issues-unwrappable-package-gsettings-vala">
<listitem xml:id="ssec-gnome-common-issues-unwrappable-package-gsettings">
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/65000c0ff8f31b982c59fd65ab5421251239df4c/pkgs/desktops/pantheon/apps/elementary-files/default.nix#L78-L86">Hard-coding GSettings schema path in Vala plug-in (dynamically loaded library)</link> – here, <function>substituteAll</function> cannot be used since the schema comes from the same package preventing us from pass its path to the function, probably due to a <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1846">Nix bug</link>.
The following examples are hardcoding GSettings schema paths. To get the schema paths we use the functions
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<function>glib.getSchemaPath</function> Takes a nix package attribute as an argument.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<function>glib.makeSchemaPath</function> Takes a package output like <literal>$out</literal> and a derivation name. You should use this if the schemas you need to hardcode are in the same derivation.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem xml:id="ssec-gnome-common-issues-unwrappable-package-gsettings-c">
<para>
<para xml:id="ssec-gnome-common-issues-unwrappable-package-gsettings-vala">
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/7bb8f05f12ca3cff9da72b56caa2f7472d5732bc/pkgs/desktops/pantheon/apps/elementary-files/default.nix#L78-L86">Hard-coding GSettings schema path in Vala plug-in (dynamically loaded library)</link> – here, <function>substituteAll</function> cannot be used since the schema comes from the same package preventing us from pass its path to the function, probably due to a <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1846">Nix bug</link>.
</para>
<para xml:id="ssec-gnome-common-issues-unwrappable-package-gsettings-c">
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/29c120c065d03b000224872251bed93932d42412/pkgs/development/libraries/glib-networking/default.nix#L31-L34">Hard-coding GSettings schema path in C library</link> – nothing special other than using <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/67957#issuecomment-527717467">Coccinelle patch</link> to generate the patch itself.
</para>
</listitem>