Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hello Guix! > > When we said we’d try to release 1.0 for FOSDEM, we were talking about > FOSDEM *2019*, which is well over now, so I think we need to get our act > together and complete the remaining tasks for 1.0. :-) > > Looking at the > <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/1.0.org> > plus my own memories, here are work items that still need to be > addressed: > > [...] > > • GDM works well for GNOME and WMs that provide a .session file. > However it still doesn’t honor ~/.xsession. We discussed it before > and dropped the ball. Timothy, what’s missing? I’d really like to > make it the default. Nothing is missing! As promised [1], in the last patch series I made GDM run our custom “xinitrc” script instead of the built-in one. This happened in commit 41fa9f1815685ede0d3fdc1c561d2a9cf0ffb158. :) (I tested this now to be absolutely sure, and it works like a charm.) > • GDM’s closure is 1.3 GiB, we should do something about it. Yes. We should be working on “guix size gnome-shell”. It more accurately reflects the size of GDM, and (I hope you’re sitting down) it weighs in at 2GiB! Fortunately, it looks like we could claw back ~400MiB by (somehow) dropping “hplip-minimal”. It gets pulled in through the path gdm → gnome-settings-daemon → colord → sane-backends → hplip-minimal. We almost certainly don’t need it for GDM. I guess removing it means making a version of “colord” without “sane-backends”. It was introduced in commit 4c9287432824f396d5c614c3b2287f553cd9fb90. I’ll look into this. GNOME Shell has a handful of silly references like “inkscape” and “webkitgtk” that are huge and (I assume) unnecessary. There seems to be a handful of easy wins. I would be surprised if we could get the closure of “gnome-shell” below 1GiB, but we will see. Also, keep in mind that a lot of these bytes will be recycled. For instance, GTK+ 3 is ~700MiB, and chances are there will be at least one GTK+ 3 application besides GDM. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg00198.html -- Tim
