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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Towards a graphical installer?
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 18:01:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgg6a2bh.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be8e28f0-8c8d-b305-3061-642c2a875945@web.de>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-11 16:07 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 [this message]
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
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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