Re: Guix Front End (GUI) and making it more mainstream, popular in scientific community.

[Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>]

On 01.11.2020 22:53, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb@leibniz-psychology.org> skribis:
> 
>>> […] from my point of view, the good direction would be a “web-app frontend”,
>>> similarly to git-annex-assistant [1].  This design is more flexible because
>>> it could be used locally *and* could also be the front-end of some servers
>>> (e.g., build farms).
>> I have something like this on my todo list as well. It would probably be more
>> of a manifest file editor though, since we use manifest files for
>> reproducibility.
> 
> Long ago Dave Thompson wrote guix-web, which allowed you to install
> packages (you’d run it as your user):
> 
>    https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://gitorious.org/guix-web/guix-web.git
> 
> It’s an interesting approach with several advantages (in particular it
> can be quickly developed), though I must say I remain unenthusiastic
> about using web browsers for local GUIs.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
> 

While I empathize with concerns about web browsers, I have to admit that 
I'm absolutely blown away by Vue.js + BootstrapVue.  (Using node & npm.)

My other GUI development experiences include iOS, Android, and C#.NET. 
I found Vue.js with Bootstrap to be on a completely different level.


Just wanted to throw this out there, even though I know it's heresy!

- Taylan