Hi, On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 21:55, Aniket Patil <aniket112.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> P.S: I don't know whether GUI for Guix exists or not, to my knowledge it > doesn't. If I am mistaken please enlighten me on this topic. For sure, a GUI front-end will be nice. Today, the most GUI-like is provided by the package ’emacs-guix’, and as the name indicates, it uses… Emacs. Well for the worst and the better. :-) Recently, we discussed with Pierre and Mathieu about this. And even if some GTK front-end would be nice to have, from my point of view, the good direction would be a “web-app frontend”, similarly to git-annex-assistant [1]. This design is more flexible because it could be used locally *and* could also be the front-end of some servers (e.g., build farms). For example, let imagine that one user is running Guix on their own machine and they locally generates a Docker image (guix pack -f docker) via the front-end. Another user who does not run Guix on their own machine (but instead some Apple product), they could go to the front-end served by one shared machine and so click, generates the Docker image and get back one link usable by “docker pull“ or whatever. The same code could run the 2 use cases. Well, command by command, these are sharable between the 2 use cases: describe, search, show, time-machine, weather, part of system and package and pack; at least for a start. 1: <https://git-annex.branchable.com/videos/git-annex_assistant_lan/> Just my opinion if I would be starting a GUI front-end. :-) All the best, simon