From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Adam Faiz <adam.faiz@disroot.org>,
guix-devel@gnu.org, dannym@scratchpost.org
Subject: Re: GUI for Guix
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 11:59:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyxh2o1a.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875y3mcrme.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:52:09 +0200")
Hi,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
My preference would be to go straight to #1; it should be possible by
implementing a helper in C that integrates libguile that can call into
the Guix API, IIRC past musings.
--
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-14 15:59 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
2023-10-14 15:59 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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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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