<davidak[m]>
Is someone interested in continuing the work on a Calamares GUI Installer for NixOS? Maybe C++ experience is needed to extend it. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/100475
<fuzzypixelz>
was the Calamares installer dropped _only_ because of the security issues (mind filling me in on that? how come other distros like Manjaro are doing fine with it), or did people _also_ think nixos doesn't need a graphical installer? Given that all efforts to bring it back went nowhere
<rawtaz>
i started looking into the matter of a graphical installer, like calamares or anything really, and realized there's a ton of different issues and forum posts about this. before i spend two hours looking through all that, can someone possibly sum up the state and where the main discussion is going on currently? just in short, OTTOYH, no need to take much of your time :)
2020-11-03
<pinpox>
manveru: the manjaro istaller (which uses calamares) works quite well
<manveru>
pinpox: yeah, i made one with calamares, never finished it though...
2020-10-29
<jonringer>
however, using something like calamares, give some "smart defaults" but the ability to change as necessary
<srhb>
kisik21: Looks like amarok, mendeley, monero-gui, zoom-us and calamares use both.
2018-07-28
<samueldr>
calamares is a god anchor word for this
2018-07-22
<Jason_Grossman>
siraben: Actually I think there's a double problem. (1) Nobody's spent the time on it (calamares might help with that), and (2) the policy problem that you have to learn to edit configuration.nix.
<siraben>
What about calamares?
2018-07-08
<zimbatm>
it looks like calamares is already part of nixpkgs
<manveru>
calamares uses the kde partitioning tool as a library, which, while it's not declarative, would at least make it easy
<manveru>
if i can find someone who knows C++/Python i could continue on it using calamares :)
<goibhniu>
ShalokShalom3: does calamares have a web based interface option?
<ShalokShalom3>
manveru: With Calamares
<manveru>
ShalokShalom3: so we got a calamares package for it, but someone needs to rewrite some of the default C++ code to make a configuration.nix instead of executing actions itself
<manveru>
ShalokShalom3: i tried making a nixos installer with calamares :)
<Dezgeg>
yes, I'm sure you could use the calamares partitioner here
<Dezgeg>
I think someone already was working on a calamares-based installer, but I cannot remember who
<rawtaz>
manveru: is there anything like remote install capabilities (e.g. over HTTP(S) in calamares afayk?
<rawtaz>
which in a way is too bad, cuz then it's harder to establish which one should be focused on :) i think it's good to have it based on something like calamares as that's a good foundation. but surely clever's has some good sides too
<manveru>
use clevers logic with calamares UX
<clever>
havent tried it calamares
<rawtaz>
clever: what's your take on using calamares?
<manveru>
calamares uses the partitioning tool from the KDE Partition Manager
<rawtaz>
ah its the calamares branch
<rawtaz>
quite hairy, i imagine :) so you ditched that and now calamares is the main component
<rawtaz>
hm, your project page says "Combining the power of Nix, Guile & Elm to install NixOS" - did you scrap that for calamares, or is it not exclusive?
2017-12-11
<gchristensen>
"Calamares is not a KDE project, or a KaOS project, or a Manjaro project, we are just a bunch of people dumping some code on GitHub." aren't we all ;)