On 04/09/2013 04:00 PM, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
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.
Indeed, this project is more about packaging a __Desktop_Environment__
rather than a simple Window Manager.
By the way, I pushed the dwm patch in the core-updates branch.
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.
One thing to do for huge packages such as GNOME/KDE would be to package
the graphic toolkits they use, and which are used by many pieces of
software. This would probably require quite a lot of work.
Cyril.
