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diff --git a/website/posts/gnome-in-guixsd.sxml b/website/posts/gnome-in-guixsd.sxml index 1a3c3d6..9663b9f 100644 --- a/website/posts/gnome-in-guixsd.sxml +++ b/website/posts/gnome-in-guixsd.sxml @@ -5,19 +5,19 @@ (date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 23 3 2016 3600)) (content div - (p "It\x92s a feature that many users were waiting for: proper " + (p "It’s a feature that many users were waiting for: proper " (a (@ (href "https://www.gnome.org/")) "GNOME") - " support in GuixSD. Good news: the forthcoming Guix and GuixSD release will give you exactly that! Don\x92t miss the obligatory " + " support in GuixSD. Good news: the forthcoming Guix and GuixSD release will give you exactly that! Don’t miss the obligatory " (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/screenshots/0.9.1/gnome-totem-epiphany.png")) "screenshot") "!" (br)) - (p "You would think adding GNOME is routine distro work involving a lot of packaging and bits of plumbing that\x92s already been done a hundred times, which is probably true! Yet, adding GNOME support turned out to be interesting in many ways: it\x92s a good test for GuixSD\x92s declarative operating system configuration framework, it\x92s a way to formalize how this whole software stack fits together, and it\x92s been an insightful journey into GNU/Linux desktop plumbing!" + (p "You would think adding GNOME is routine distro work involving a lot of packaging and bits of plumbing that’s already been done a hundred times, which is probably true! Yet, adding GNOME support turned out to be interesting in many ways: it’s a good test for GuixSD’s declarative operating system configuration framework, it’s a way to formalize how this whole software stack fits together, and it’s been an insightful journey into GNU/Linux desktop plumbing!" (br)) (p "Of course, a lot of software needs to be packaged to begin with. This had been on-going for some time, culminating with the addition of a " (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/#gnome")) "gnome meta-package") - " thanks to the hard work of ??? (Sou Bunnbu) and other hackers. On the way, we added " + " thanks to the hard work of 宋文武 (Sou Bunnbu) and other hackers. On the way, we added " (a (@ (href "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-12/msg00173.html")) "an auto-updater for GNOME packages") ", because all these package recipes need love." @@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ (p "The more interesting parts were system integration. Modern GNOME/Freedesktop environments rely on a number of daemons, most of which talk over " (a (@ (href "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/")) "D-Bus") - ", and extending each other\x92s functionality: udev, udisks, upower, colord, geoclue, and polkit, to name a few. Being able to " + ", and extending each other’s functionality: udev, udisks, upower, colord, geoclue, and polkit, to name a few. Being able to " (em "compose") " all these system services was one of the driving use cases behind " (a (@ (href "https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8412")) - "the design of GuixSD\x92s new service composition framework") + "the design of GuixSD’s new service composition framework") ". With this design, we knew we were able to have fine control over the " (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Service-Composition.html")) "service composition graph") @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ "GNU Shepherd") " and not systemd as its init system, we needed a way to provide the " (a (@ (href "https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind/")) - "\x93logind\x94") + "“logind”") " functionality that systemd implements, and which allows GNOME to know about " (a (@ (href "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat/")) "users, sessions, and seats") @@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ "extracting") " logind from systemd, leading to " (a (@ (href "https://github.com/wingo/elogind")) - "\x93elogind\x94") - ". At this point, we had this daemon that could keep track of logged-in users and active sessions, and which GNOME could talk to over D-Bus\x85 provided all the relevant " + "“elogind”") + ". At this point, we had this daemon that could keep track of logged-in users and active sessions, and which GNOME could talk to over D-Bus… provided all the relevant " (a (@ (href "http://www.linux-pam.org/")) "PAM services") " would use the pam_elogind module so that elogind knows when a user logs in and out, as Andy " @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ "cross-cutting modules") ". At last, we had proper logind support! " (br)) - (p "At this point, the brave could start using GNOME on GuixSD but would soon realize that, for example, the \x93power off\x94 button wouldn\x92t have the desired effect, or that changing a laptop\x92s backlight wouldn\x92t work because " + (p "At this point, the brave could start using GNOME on GuixSD but would soon realize that, for example, the “power off” button wouldn’t have the desired effect, or that changing a laptop’s backlight wouldn’t work because " (a (@ (href "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/")) "polkit") ", the daemon that allows unprivileged users to perform privileged operations like that one, was " @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ (br)) (p "You would think you can finally change the brightness of your screen, but no! Turns out that polkit would " (a (@ (href "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-02/msg01170.html")) - "refuse to run gnome-setting-daemon\x92s backlight helper program") + "refuse to run gnome-setting-daemon’s backlight helper program") " because " (a (@ (href "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-03/msg00247.html")) "elogind happened to fail to map PIDs to sessions") @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ "GNOME suspending right after it wakes up from suspend") ", failure to start in QEMU, or " (a (@ (href "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-03/msg00690.html")) - "the lack of GNOME\x92s favorite font") + "the lack of GNOME’s favorite font") ". Well, it seems that all these are gone now!" (br)) (p "GuixSD users can now enable GNOME by adding " |