Re: GUI for Guix

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

My preference would be to go straight to #1; it should be possible by
implementing a helper in C that integrates libguile that can call into
the Guix API, IIRC past musings.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim