MAKE_SERVICES(1)

💖 MAKE_SERVICES(1) — the GNUstep System Manual glow-up 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

make_services — generate GNUstep services info 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

make_services [--test filename ] [--verbose|--quiet]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So basically, make_services builds a validated cache of service information for the programs that wanna get in on the GNUstep services facility 💅 On top of that, it builds a list of applications and service bundles it finds in the standard directories. That cache usually lives in a file called .GNUstepServices, chilling in your GNUstep directory 🫶

Most of the time make_services gets called from inside the GNUstep.sh or GNUstep.csh script, so the service info gets refreshed every single time the GNUstep environment is set up — aka in a login script, no cap. But obviously you can also just run make_services from the command line whenever you feel like it, for example after you've installed a new application or service 👑

The Services menu in an application's mainmenu is usually updated automatically. However, you might have to close an open or torn off menu before the changes show up 🙈 And also — the workspace manager may have to be closed and restarted for file association changes to actually take effect. it's giving "have you tried turning it off and on again" but make it Unix 😭

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --test filename — checks that the property list filename contains valid service information 🔍
• --quiet — suppresses warnings (not recommended, but it's useful in login scripts 🍓)
• --verbose — gives you verbose output 📢
• --help — shows a small help screen 🎀

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Simply rebuild the cache of service information, iconic behaviour, no notes:

make_services

Check whether the file ServiceInfo.plist contains a valid service description:

make_services --test ServiceInfo.plist

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⭐ NOTES ⭐

If you give both --quiet and --verbose on the command line, you get verbose output. The --quiet argument gets fully ignored. periodt 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

GNUstep(7), gopen(1)

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🧚 HISTORY 🧚

Work on make_services started November 1998 ⏳

This manual page was first written October 2003.

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

make_services was written by Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> 🫶

This man page was written by Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com> ✨

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GNUstep · October 2003 — and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💖🎀🦋 iykyk