gdnc is a user process and can't be made into a NixOS module very easily. It can still be put in the user's login script. According to the GNUstep documentation it will be started as soon as it is needed.
*** NixOS *** NixOS is a Linux distribution based on the purely functional package management system Nix. More information can be found at http://nixos.org/nixos and in the manual in doc/manual.