Re: GUI for Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.