From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Towards a graphical installer?
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 22:17:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dx12il4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnb847y3.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Wed, 13 May 2020 09:20:36 +0200")
Hello,
Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:
> I think switching to a DE based installer could:
>
> * Allow the user to browse for some questions or contact #guix while in
> the installation process.
>
> * Bring better control of network connection, with a dedicated tool such
> as NetworkManager applet.
I think the Connman-based option we currently have is pretty good
(modulo the WiFi bug we had ;-)) and has the advantage of being well
integrated, no?
> * Make easier to add accessibility support to the installer.
Really? Text-based interfaces tend to lend themselves well to
accessibility support, I think, with things like BRLTTY. I would think
that using a graphical DE is more challenging because one has to know
how to navigate between windows, how to query the currently-focused
window, etc., which requires a screen reader like Orca or similar, which
is not really a panacea.
I also wonder whether the extra hundreds of megabytes for “just” running
a terminal under X11 are warranted. It would be a different story if
the installer itself were graphical. But at any rate, I think closure
size is an issue.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-24 20:17 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 [this message]
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
2020-05-14 8:08 ` Christopher Baines
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