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[66.158.156.181]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id du10-20020a05621409aa00b0065d105f6931sm1787809qvb.59.2023.10.14.08.59.14 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 14 Oct 2023 08:59:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Maxim Cournoyer To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Adam Faiz , guix-devel@gnu.org, dannym@scratchpost.org Subject: Re: GUI for Guix In-Reply-To: <875y3mcrme.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:52:09 +0200") References: <875y3mcrme.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 11:59:13 -0400 Message-ID: <87cyxh2o1a.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::f2e; envelope-from=maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com; helo=mail-qv1-xf2e.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guix-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Scanner: mx1.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -9.46 X-Spam-Score: -9.46 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 130D73E859 X-TUID: j2uJ1yTVAp4K Hi, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hi, > > Adam Faiz 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=E2=80=99s 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. --=20 Thanks, Maxim