Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

[Brandon Invergo <brandon@gnu.org>]

Hi Chris,

> I just learned about Guix from the GNU Google Summer of Code project page, and I'm very interested in
> the idea of a fully functional package manager. That one of the project ideas was bundling the
> distribution with a window manager sparked in me the idea to bundle it with a fully-functional window
> manager. I originally envisioned xmonad as the wm of choice, due to my interest in Haskell, and
> emailed Ludo to this effect. He told me it might be more beneficial to use a natively Guile Scheme
> wm, which he observed are few, not very mature, and generally stagnant already. Upon looking around
> further, I came across stumpwm, implemented in 100% Common Lisp, so I propose a compromise: adapt and
> package stumpwm for use with Guile Scheme and Guix, and then use the resulting environment to have  a
> free software distribution configurable primarily in Guile Scheme.

Check out nwm:
https://github.com/nizmic/nwm

It's written in XCB and uses Guile. I don't know how complete it is
yet, though. I haven't had much time to play around with it but it seems
to be generally working. It has a REPL and it uses Scheme functions to
manage window placement. I think it would be a better choice. Stumpwm is
huge and I'm pretty sure it has a lot of dependencies on Common Lisp features.

-brandon

ps - sorry if you got this message twice