Dnia 2020-11-11, o godz. 19:35:57 Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> napisaĆ(a):
> Hi Jan, > > Jan Wielkiewicz <tona_kosmicznego_smie...@interia.pl> writes: > > >> I've just updated the Nyxt package to 2-pre-release-4 which > >> includes a package manager GUI that supports Guix! > > Did you and a GUI for the package manager into the browser...? :) > > Sorry, what did you mean? :) Sorry for I-had-a-stroke message. I often build my sentences non-linearly and end up with sliced streams of consciousness. What I was supposed to write: "Did you add a GUI for the package manager into the browser...? :)" > > I mean it's good to have a GUI for Guix, but isn't this against so > > called "UNIX Philosophy" or modularity, saying more precisely? > > What is against the Unix philosophy? I don't really like the term, because it became a buzzword recently, but generally what I mean is building a program on top of a giant framework such as a web browser isn't the best desing choice. I think programs should be build in the modular fashion, so each element is easily replaceable. I believe web browsers tend to do many things and do them badly - they're a really poorly designed copy of operating systems and its utilities. I guess your choice comes from the lack of a proper GUI toolkit available, but I'm just not a big fan of web browsers generally. In fact I started writing my own GUI toolkit/application framework in Guile just for the purpose of bringing modularity to GUI applications, but I'm rather unexperienced and this might take a few years. > I don't think GUIs are against anything. This GUI I've worked on a > merely an interface, it does nothing but use the Guix API. The first sentence made my point not clear - I have nothing against GUIs. > It makes searching and install/uninstall and generation delete > operations very convenient. Everything is much easier when you have > an interactive minibuffer with live fuzzy search ;) That's good, I just don't understand why in the web browser. I'll try it. > Cheers! >