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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Adam Faiz <adam.faiz@disroot.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org,  dannym@scratchpost.org
Subject: Re: GUI for Guix
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:52:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875y3mcrme.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adafe991-c156-2ced-b750-d3b26a2a2303@disroot.org> (Adam Faiz's message of "Sun, 1 Oct 2023 00:07:44 +0800")

Hi,

Adam Faiz <adam.faiz@disroot.org> skribis:

> There are currently 4(maybe more?) different approaches for a Guix GUI:
> 1. Guix backend for PackageKit (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/17152)
> 2. A GTK program written by Danny Milosavljevic in Guile (https://gitlab.com/daym/guix-gui/)
> 3. A Qt program written for a non-FSDG distro downstream of Guix System (https://git.pantherx.org/development/applications/px-software)
> 4. Emacs-Guix, currently broken (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55013)
>
> Which of these should be worked on? I tried packaging guix-gui, but it doesn't work without the workaround mentioned in the README.
> I think packaging it should wait until the guile-gi bug[1] is fixed.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi/issues/96

FWIW I would suggest prioritizing #2 as it seems to be a low-hanging
fruit (what’s up with this Guile-GI bug though?).

Longer-term, #1 may be more fruitful, although one drawback is that
PackageKit/GNOME Software may be biased towards system-wide,
root-restricted installations.

Ludo’.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-04 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-30 16:07 GUI for Guix Adam Faiz
2023-09-30 17:08 ` jbranso
2023-10-02 18:52   ` Thompson, David
2023-10-01 20:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-10-02 20:25   ` Suhail Singh
2023-10-04 15:49   ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-10-06  2:58     ` Suhail Singh
2023-10-04 15:52 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-10-14 15:59   ` Maxim Cournoyer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-10-02  8:53 Adam Faiz
2023-10-02 15:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-10-03  9:00   ` Daniel Meißner

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