Re: GUI for Guix

[Thompson, David]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 1:08 PM <jbranso@dismail.de> wrote:
>
> September 30, 2023 10:09 AM, "Adam Faiz" <adam.faiz@disroot.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > 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
>
> I believe that there is a web interface for this as well that Dave Thompson 
> wrote. Anyone have a
> link to that source code?

It's here: https://git.dthompson.us/guix-web/

I wrote it in 2015... surely pretty bitrotten by now.  It was
basically just a web viewer for the package collection.  Would likely
perform terribly given the number of packages in Guix now.  IIRC
Ricardo used it for some experiment of his own, too.

A web-based UI for simply managing packages in user profiles might be
cool, if it can be done securely.

- Dave