Re: Towards a graphical installer?

[hamzeh]

On AP 22.02.1399 17:57, 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 think a Qt-Based application could be a good idea as an installer.
Also there is an installer `calamares` developed by Qt. It's plugin based and
we can develop/customize GUIX specific plugins of `calamares`.
So we can have a GUI Installer more faster. Currently the `calamares` is used by many other distros like `Lubuntu` and `Manjaro`.
https://calamares.io/about/
https://calamares.io/calamares-2.0-is-out/

Also we can choose `LXQt` as the default DE for installation. So we can have a smaller ISO image with a lightweight and capable DE.