Gnome-tweak-tool 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-tool-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
