Group: Guix/Wishlist

The below list contains software that users of GNU Guix would like to see packaged. If you are interested in contributing to Guix, please consider packaging something in this list. If the package you're interested in is already listed, feel free to either add a "(+1)" next to its name or increment the vote count, e.g. "(+1)" -> "(+2)", etc.

Reminder: Please only add Free Software here.

Before adding a package to this list, please verify that it hasn't already been packaged.

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Communication

Mail

• Mailman (+1)
• Postfix (+1)
• Usermin
• Courier MTA with SQWebMail
• Icedove (+1)

Multimedia communication

• Ekiga
• Empathy
• Jitsi Desktop
• KDE Telepathy
• Linphone
• GNU Jami
• wire-desktop (+1)

Instant messaging client

• Cryptocat
• Psi
• Ricochet
• Xchat
• Tox (with clients such as Venom, and MuTox) (+1)
• Telegram-Desktop
• Nheko

Social networking

• Diaspora (+2)
• GNU Social (WIP) (+1)
• Pleroma (requires elixir build-system)
• Pump.io (requires nodejs-build-system) (+1)

Matrix

• mxisd (+1)
• Matrix-synapse (+1)
• weechat-matrix (+1)

Production

Editor

• Light Table
• notepadqq
• vscode
• arduino IDE

Graphics

• Mypaint
• OpenSCAD (+1)
• Sweet Home 3D (+1)

Office

• Zotero Desktop (+1)

System

DEs & WMs

• Latest GNOME (+1)
• KDE (+1)
• herbstluftwm
• mahogany
• bspwc
• waymonad
• waybox

Fonts

• Lemon
• Overpass
• ProFont (+1)
• Proggy
• Scientifica
• Tewi

Hardware

• LVM-Support (+1)
• Swapspace (+1)
• ckb-next

Shell

• Dtrx (+1)
• Fbv
• Pagekite
• Twin
• fzf
• goodls
• ydotool

X11

• arc-firefox-theme
• X2Go
• Greenclip
• Kvantum
• qt5ct
• PulseAudio-Applet
• sc-controller
• Gambas

Emulation

• Fbterm
• RPCS3
• PCSX2
• PCSX-Reloaded

Live USB

• Gnome Multi-Writer

Audio

• ncpamixer

Video

• LosslessCut
• MythTV
• Pitivi

Education

• Anki (WIP halted until Qt-webengine is packaged)
• Dr. Geo
• Glean

Games

• Bouncy Bunny
• Bsd-games
• BZFlag
• Flightgear
• FreeCol
• KTuberling
• Neverball (+1)
• Oolite
• Ryzom
• Sil (WIP needs patches to handle readonly installpath)
• sil-q (can be packaged with Sil)
• Terasology
• Trigger Rally (+1)
• OpenArena
• Stunt Rally
• VDrift

Network

• Midori
• Wvdial
• ELinks
• inox ;;a patched chromium is already packaged, remove?
• geth
• metasploit-framework
• metasploit-payloads
• sqlmap
• Tor Browser (+4)
• Tribler
• Freenet (+1)
• GNU Radio (+2)
• ZeroNet
• I2P (+1)

Service as a Software Substitute

• EtherCalc (+1)
• Etherpad (+1)
• Gitlab (+1)
• Gogs
• Gitea (+1)
• sr.ht
• Nextcloud (+1)
• Nextcloud-Client
• ownCloud
• Mediagoblin (+1)
• Sandstorm
• Wakaba
• Kareha
• YOURLS
• Hugo

Programming

Version control

• hg-fast-export
• gitk

Programming languages

• Pascal (2+) (would open the path to packaging bricxcc)
• isabelle (+1)
• Scala

Clojure

• Leiningen

Guile

• Guile-CV (rekado and bavier have worked on)

Haskell

• stack (build tool)

Python

• PyPump

Perl

• SpamAssassin (written in Perl) (+2)

Ruby

• Rails (many dependencies)

Java

• gradle

Science

• Celestia (Some more licensing research needs to be done for this patch)
• Sage (+2)
• Scilab
• FreeCAD (+1)
• Logisim

Wayland

• bemenu
• mako
• wf-recorder
• wl-clipboard-x11

TODO: When libreplanet.org is upgraded to a new version of MediaWiki, use interwiki links to link to the Free Software Directory for descriptions of wishlisted software.

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