Re: Towards a graphical installer?

[dftxbs3e]

On 5/11/20 3:27 PM, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> A way to move forward with the installer could be to propose an ISO
> image starting a desktop-environment by default. 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 don't think I'll have the bandwidth to do this anytime soon, but is
> someone is interested, I'm willing to help/review :).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mathieu
> 

I was thinking that designing a good TUI installer would be sufficient,
I find the latest Subiquity Ubuntu installer very beautiful and great!

Have a look: https://invidio.us/watch?v=Glyj4BjAhME

Git: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/subiquity

Do you think there's really a point in doing GUI?

Also, if GUI, is there a way to do that with more minimalism while
getting the desired features?

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