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Re: Towards a graphical installer?
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Christopher Baines |
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Re: Towards a graphical installer? |
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Thu, 14 May 2020 09:08:45 +0100 |
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Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> writes:
> 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 haven't had time to try this out yet, but it sounds very exciting!
Thanks,
Chris
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