From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mp1 ([2001:41d0:2:4a6f::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by ms11 with LMTPS id +5ewIKH8vF6FCAAA0tVLHw (envelope-from ) for ; Thu, 14 May 2020 08:09:05 +0000 Received: from aspmx1.migadu.com ([2001:41d0:2:4a6f::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by mp1 with LMTPS id QDjCGqH8vF6WMwAAbx9fmQ (envelope-from ) for ; Thu, 14 May 2020 08:09:05 +0000 Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by aspmx1.migadu.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D0F5940607 for ; Thu, 14 May 2020 08:09:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1]:47158 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ8vQ-00008o-6h for larch@yhetil.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 04:09:04 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50306) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ8vF-00007N-UL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 04:08:53 -0400 Received: from mira.cbaines.net ([2a01:7e00:e000:2f8:fd4d:b5c7:13fb:3d27]:38149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ8vD-0004qb-S3; Thu, 14 May 2020 04:08:53 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [46.237.173.210]) by mira.cbaines.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 917A927BBE1; Thu, 14 May 2020 09:08:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [local]) by localhost (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 5b6e312f; Thu, 14 May 2020 08:08:47 +0000 (UTC) References: <87k11iwqim.fsf@gnu.org> User-agent: mu4e 1.2.0; emacs 26.3 From: Christopher Baines To: Mathieu Othacehe , Subject: Re: Towards a graphical installer? 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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 haven't had time to try this out yet, but it sounds very exciting! 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