From: hamzeh <h.nasajpour@pantherx.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Towards a graphical installer?
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 01:23:56 +0430 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b767b3e-ba18-4f0f-d1d0-9ad274a94e11@pantherx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k11iwqim.fsf@gnu.org>
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On AP 22.02.1399 17:57, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A way to move forward with the installer could be to propose an ISO
> image starting a desktop-environment by default. The attached patch
> modifies the installation image so that it starts a GNOME session. The
> installer is then automatically started, inside a gnome-terminal.
>
> The resulting ISO image is bigger: 3.9G without compression and 1.7G
> with compression.
>
> Now, I'm not sure this is something we want to merge as-is. Maybe, it's
> time to port the installer to a GTK3 application, or a Web
> application. As we already have something working, porting (gnu
> installer) to a new graphical backend, could be not so hard.
>
> I don't think I'll have the bandwidth to do this anytime soon, but is
> someone is interested, I'm willing to help/review :).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
I think a Qt-Based application could be a good idea as an installer.
Also there is an installer `calamares` developed by Qt. It's plugin
based and
we can develop/customize GUIX specific plugins of `calamares`.
So we can have a GUI Installer more faster. Currently the `calamares` is
used by many other distros like `Lubuntu` and `Manjaro`.
https://calamares.io/about/
https://calamares.io/calamares-2.0-is-out/
Also we can choose `LXQt` as the default DE for installation. So we can
have a smaller ISO image with a lightweight and capable DE.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-12 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-11 13:27 Towards a graphical installer? Mathieu Othacehe
2020-05-11 15:17 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-05-11 16:01 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-05-13 7:11 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-05-11 16:29 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-05-12 2:58 ` raingloom
2020-05-12 3:49 ` John Soo
2020-05-13 7:20 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-05-13 9:28 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-05-24 20:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-11 19:50 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-11 20:03 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-11 22:27 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-05-12 7:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-12 15:33 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-05-13 5:44 ` dftxbs3e
2020-05-13 7:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-12 6:10 ` dftxbs3e
2020-05-12 6:13 ` dftxbs3e
2020-05-12 20:53 ` hamzeh [this message]
2020-05-14 8:08 ` Christopher Baines
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