Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

[Cyril Roelandt]

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.