Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

[Nikita Karetnikov]

> That's a fair question. I suppose I don't much know -- the Summer of
> Code ideas site listed "package window manager" as one of the
> projects, so I assumed there was a lot to be done. Maybe that's more
> about packaging the dependencies of the larger projects.

I've just checked the page.  Yes, I feel that it's about packaging the
dependencies.  So if you like tiling WMs, you can package one (by the
way, there is a patch [1] that adds dwm to 'core-updates').  Then you
can package things like PDF viewers and other graphical tools.  For
example, you can create a list of tools which are shipped with GNOME.
This will reduce the amount of work when we decide to package a
non-tiling WM.

So, here is a to-do list that summarizes the above:

1. Choose a WM.

2. For instance, find which packages are shipped with GNOME.

3. Use 'guix import' and 'guix package -A' to identify the missing
   packages.  It will help to determine what should be done first.

But first, let's hear what others think.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-03/msg00167.html

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