Hello Ricardo and jbranso, thank you very much for your reply. I appreciate your comments and will take them into account.
Agreed Ricardo, I will read the cookbook, thanks for the recommendation ... If I would like to continue learning Guix and especially put it as my main system, only that I was missing that package to use it on a daily basis. Another question, how could I change the theme in GNOME? Since in other distros, it was simply to put the theme in /usr/share/themes, how could I do it in guix? Thank you very much again. On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 3:47 PM Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > First of all, I apologize for using a Gmail email, it happens that I do > not > > know any mail server that is free, but, if you could give me any > > recommendation in this regard, I would greatly appreciate it. > > There’s nothing wrong with using an email server that is operated by > somebody else, so there’s absolutely no need to apologize. > > Furthermore, it’s up to *you* what software you use. Some people > construe the use of proprietary software or centralized services as a > moral failing of some sort — it certainly is not. Proprietary software > denies those who use it control. That is why it is injust. > > We only ask that proprietary software should not be endorsed or > discussed on the Guix project communication channels. But nobody should > judge others for the software they choose to use (or accept to be used > by). > > > The software that is on this page: > > https://www.simulide.com/p/home.html > > From my perspective, it is free software, since it is published under the > > GPL, however it is not within the Guix repository, could you add it so > that > > it can be available? I'm not so sure how to create the package, so I come > > to you. > > If you are interested in learning how to package this, we could do this > together. This is a Qt5 application – we have a couple of those in the > repository. The README.md file lists a few dependencies, most of which > look familiar to me. The only difficult part might be to integrate the > AVR GCC toolchain, but we can cross that bridge when we get there. > > If you like to give it a try, I suggest you read and follow along in the > packaging tutorial in the Cookbook: > > https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Packaging.html > > Once you have a rough understanding of how things are designed to work > we can work on this package together here on help-guix@gnu.org. Sounds > good? > > > And finally, I am a university student, so I am forced to use proprietary > > services under the web such as Google Meet, Gmail, etc. Could it be > > feasible to use guix with these services without compromising freedom, or > > would it be better to continue using Windows for these areas? > > At least for Gmail there’s a way to use it without proprietary software > (= their JavaScript that your browser mindlessly executes). You can use > Gmail as an IMAP/POP + SMTP server and connect to it with free software. > > I no longer use Gmail, but the solution I use also works for Gmail: > offlineimap (for synchronizing a local copy of my email with the IMAP > server), msmtpd (for sending emails through the remote SMTP server), mu > (for local indexing and search), and mu4e (for a mail client in Emacs). > > -- > Ricardo > -- ~ Huerta Jara Carlos Abraham