Re: Gnome-shell metapackage

[宋文武]

"d.4.n.1" <address@hidden> writes:

> I try again and work it! gnome-shell on guixsd! I'll help to add more
> packages to it. thanks ludo, David and all guix devs.
That's great to know!
>
> Sent from my Mi phone
> On address@hidden, Jan 7, 2016 11:15 AM wrote:
>
>         Hello! 
>     
>     address@hidden skribis: 
>     
>     > do you think about create a metapackage to gnome-shell? 
>     
>     I think 宋文武 is kinda looking into it (or should consider
>     looking into 
>     it). :-)
Yeah, comparing with the 'gnome-core' meta package from debian,
useful packages are still missing, or maybe we should just add what
we have now and complete it gradually?
>     
>     > How do I change slim/wicd to gdm/networkmanager? 
>     
>     There’s no GuixSD service for GDM yet, but that’s another thing we 
>     should look into it soon.
GDM can't start the X server (it hardcode /usr/bin/X, etc.) now, my plan
is to add an 'xorg-service' for '/run/setuid-programs/X' and then patch
GDM to use that instead.
>     
>     There is ‘network-manager-service’ in (gnu services networking).
>     It can 
>     be used as shown here: 
>     
>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-11/msg00717.html
>    
>     
>     It didn’t work for me though, so your feedback would be
>     appreciated! 
>     
>     宋文武, I noticed that ‘network-manager-service’ is undocumented
>     in the 
>     manual; could you add it under “Networking”?
OK, will do it.