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From: bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Come back and graphical installer
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:47:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181022224729.789b8f3d@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181022170731.13db3f3b@scratchpost.org>

FWIW, i will add that the bulk of effort required to have a pretty
user-friendly mouse-centric installer for guixsd is not with the
installer itself, but in making a liveISO that boots a graphical
environment - i would not consider ncurses to be "graphical" and most
casual users would not either - if non-technical people are ever going
to try guixsd, then a fully graphical liveISO X desktop environment
with a mouse-centric installer will be essential

i have experience with the calamares installer which is
very much a ready-made, modular, distro-agnostic solution - all that
would be required for calamares is to write a new module that scripts a
standard command line install procedure and everything else (the GUI,
partitioning, a pretty slideshow) is included for free and maintained
upstream - about a year ago i discussed this with rekado and offered
that i would be willing to adapt it for guix but it was seen then
(as it apparently still is now) to be low-priority, so i left it at that

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-23  2:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-20 15:07 Come back and graphical installer Mathieu Othacehe
2018-10-20 15:25 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-20 15:48   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-10-22 12:37     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-22 13:58     ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-10-20 20:57 ` Chris Marusich
2018-10-21  9:50   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-22 12:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-23  3:39   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-10-23  8:17     ` Björn Höfling
2018-10-22 15:07 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-10-23  2:47   ` bill-auger [this message]
2018-10-23  2:55     ` bill-auger
2018-10-23  3:48   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-10-24 13:23   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-16 13:20 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-16 21:29   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-17  3:51     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-17 13:30       ` L p R n d n
2018-11-17 13:05         ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-17 14:21           ` L p R n d n
2018-11-17 13:36             ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-17 15:05               ` L p R n d n
2018-11-17 14:36                 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-17 18:05                   ` L p R n d n
2018-11-18  3:21                     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-18 12:45                       ` swedebugia
2018-11-23 11:08                       ` L p R n d n
2018-11-23 11:11                         ` L p R n d n
2018-11-18 23:03                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-19  2:26                     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-19 20:38                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-20  1:25                         ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-22  9:13                           ` Merging ‘wip-newt-installer’ in master? Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-22 14:57                             ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-23 13:49                               ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-23 14:48                                 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-23 15:31                                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-24  3:57                                     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-28  9:07                                       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-28 13:14                                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-29  1:23                                           ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-29  5:44                                             ` Brett Gilio
2018-11-29 10:36                                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-05 13:23                                               ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-12-05 23:50                                                 ` swedebugia
2019-01-05 22:50                                                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-12 19:25                                                   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-01-13 17:09                                                     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-01-13 21:13                                                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-16 17:12                                                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-16 17:55                                                       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-01-16 22:28                                                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-16 18:25                                                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-16 19:14                                                       ` John Soo
2019-01-16 19:43                                                       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-01-17  0:04                                                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-17  7:44                                                           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-17  8:48                                                           ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-01-17 13:13                                                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-19 18:26                                                               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-21  8:33                                                                 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-01-21  8:39                                                                   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-21  9:03                                                                     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-01-21  9:06                                                                       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-06 13:56                                                                         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-08 22:00                                                                           ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-16 20:07                                                       ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-11-18 19:43   ` Come back and graphical installer Thorsten Wilms
2018-11-18 20:14     ` swedebugia
2018-11-19  2:13       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-19  2:10     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-11-19 11:31       ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-11-21 14:55       ` swedebugia

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