Re: Towards a graphical installer?

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>]

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Mathieu, Jonathan,

A truly graphical installer would be glorious.  Exploring it was 
what led to the quick & dirty zisofs patch.

Like you I was able to get a surprisingly working Gnome desktop, 
but it was very rough at the edges.  (However my compressed images 
were closer to 1.4 GiB than your 1.7 which might explain that; cut 
out things like GDM &c.).

Are you, for example, able to connect to a Wi-Fi network the Gnome 
way (not using the installer), without a Gnome authentication 
dialogue popping up that doesn't understand the notion of ‘no 
password’?  I had to open a terminal and ‘passwd’ myself out of 
that to continue.

I ran into so many paper cuts like this I burnt out due to Gnome 
being, you know, Gnome.

Mathieu Othacehe 写道：
> 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.

Last time I brought this up someone mentioned using Calamares[0]. 
Not that I think that's a good idea, but it's another data point 
for discussion :-p

Jonathan Brielmaier 写道：
> Nice initiative! Maybe it would be an idea to use XFCE instead 
> of GNOME
> as it's tend to be a little smaller. And maybe more stable as 
> they don't
> have that many releases...

As much as I dislike Gnome, I think we should first try to use the 
(most likely) default desktop during the installation, and I do 
think that's currently Gnome.

Not at all costs of course.  Size.  Stability.  Sanity.

Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: https://calamares.io/

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