Gnome-tweaks does not look at GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_PATH or XDG_DATA_DIRS, it
assumes that schemas are installed in one global directory
(GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR/gsettingsschemadir).

Guix/GuixSD uses a different directory for every gir package and has
packages pick-up files using XDG_DATA_DIRS.

Upstream ticket: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764537
janneke@gnu.org

--- gnome-tweak-3.18.1.orig/gtweak/gsettings.py	2015-04-08 15:21:32.000000000 +0200
+++ gnome-tweak-tool-3.18.1/gtweak/gsettings.py	2016-04-03 11:26:38.658482704 +0200
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
 # along with gnome-tweak-tool.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 import logging
-import os.path
+import os
+import sys
 import xml.dom.minidom
 import gettext
 
@@ -31,6 +32,13 @@
 class GSettingsMissingError(Exception):
     pass
 
+def file_from_path(path, file_name):
+    for dir in path:
+        f = os.path.join(dir, file_name)
+        if os.path.exists(f):
+            return f
+    return None
+
 class _GSettingsSchema:
     def __init__(self, schema_name, schema_dir=None, schema_filename=None, **options):
         if not schema_dir:
@@ -38,9 +46,14 @@
         if not schema_filename:
             schema_filename = schema_name + ".gschema.xml"
 
+        schema_prefix = os.path.join('glib-2.0', 'schemas')
         schema_path = os.path.join(schema_dir, schema_filename)
         if not os.path.exists(schema_path):
-            logging.critical("Could not find schema %s" % schema_path)
+            schema_path = file_from_path(os.environ.get ('GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_PATH', '').split(os.path.pathsep), schema_filename)
+        if not (schema_path and os.path.exists(schema_path)):
+            schema_path = file_from_path(os.environ.get ('XDG_DATA_DIRS', '').split(os.path.pathsep), os.path.join(schema_prefix, schema_filename))
+        if not (schema_path and os.path.exists(schema_path)):
+            logging.critical("Could not find schema %s" % schema_filename)
             assert(False)
 
         self._schema_name = schema_name
g/nix?id=dd5c8085dd994f9b362952f63fadd2e1382d835c'>nix</a>/<a href='/guix/log/nix/boost?id=dd5c8085dd994f9b362952f63fadd2e1382d835c'>boost</a></div><div class='content'><table class='list nowrap'><tr class='nohover'><th class='left'>Age</th><th class='left'>Commit message (<a href='/guix/log/nix/boost?id=dd5c8085dd994f9b362952f63fadd2e1382d835c&amp;showmsg=1'>Expand</a>)</th><th class='left'>Author</th></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-06-24 19:55:22 +0100'>2020-06-24</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/nix/boost?id=cd43b55da7ab51c996a7a3449c78f2a493616106'>nix: Tweak .gitignore files.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>Remove .gitignore entries where they match source files that are tracked in
Git.  This is relevant to me at least, as some code searching tools use
.gitignore files and will ignore matched files.
</span></span></td><td>Christopher Baines</td></tr>