From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bill-auger Subject: Re: Come back and graphical installer Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:47:29 -0400 Message-ID: <20181022224729.789b8f3d@debian> References: <87lg6sejwa.fsf@gmail.com> <20181022170731.13db3f3b@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57291) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gEmjS-0004ZO-JZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:47:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gEmjK-0005zz-30 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:47:44 -0400 Received: from pop.dreamhost.com ([64.90.62.162]:46234 helo=pdx1-sub0-mail-a34.g.dreamhost.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gEmjJ-0005vO-7C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:47:37 -0400 Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a34.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a34.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1598010F for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:47:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian (75-138-186-142.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com [75.138.186.142]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bill-auger@peers.community) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a34.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 75C9A80132 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:47:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20181022170731.13db3f3b@scratchpost.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.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