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* GUI for installing compartmentalized apps?
@ 2020-01-10  5:50 /#!/JoePea
  2020-01-10 22:33 ` Alyssa Ross
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: /#!/JoePea @ 2020-01-10  5:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: discuss

Is this something planned for Spectrum down the line?
#!/JoePea

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* Re: GUI for installing compartmentalized apps?
  2020-01-10  5:50 GUI for installing compartmentalized apps? /#!/JoePea
@ 2020-01-10 22:33 ` Alyssa Ross
  2020-01-12 19:15   ` /#!/JoePea
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Alyssa Ross @ 2020-01-10 22:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: /#!/JoePea; +Cc: discuss

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> Subject: GUI for installing compartmentalized apps?
>
> Is this something planned for Spectrum down the line?

Yes, but it might be a while.  I have some ideas for how it could work
-- a Nix configuration file could be supplemented by an imported JSON
(or similar) file managed by a graphical tool.  This would mean that,
even when it wasn't up to some complex task like a package override, a
graphical tool could be used for managing the simple cases.

Such a tool would also be immediately useful for NixOS, so even
non-Spectrum users could benefit from it.  It might even mean somebody
not even involved in Spectrum might develop it!

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* Re: GUI for installing compartmentalized apps?
  2020-01-10 22:33 ` Alyssa Ross
@ 2020-01-12 19:15   ` /#!/JoePea
  2020-01-12 23:28     ` Alyssa Ross
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: /#!/JoePea @ 2020-01-12 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alyssa Ross; +Cc: discuss

Interesting. I wonder if there's a way to make it easy to use certain
dependencies in a terminal session. F.e. maybe from the GUI tool we
can launch a terminal with chosen dependencies (like nix-shell), or
launch any app that way.

#!/JoePea

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 2:33 PM Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
>
> > Subject: GUI for installing compartmentalized apps?
> >
> > Is this something planned for Spectrum down the line?
>
> Yes, but it might be a while.  I have some ideas for how it could work
> -- a Nix configuration file could be supplemented by an imported JSON
> (or similar) file managed by a graphical tool.  This would mean that,
> even when it wasn't up to some complex task like a package override, a
> graphical tool could be used for managing the simple cases.
>
> Such a tool would also be immediately useful for NixOS, so even
> non-Spectrum users could benefit from it.  It might even mean somebody
> not even involved in Spectrum might develop it!

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* Re: GUI for installing compartmentalized apps?
  2020-01-12 19:15   ` /#!/JoePea
@ 2020-01-12 23:28     ` Alyssa Ross
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Alyssa Ross @ 2020-01-12 23:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: /#!/JoePea; +Cc: discuss

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> Interesting. I wonder if there's a way to make it easy to use certain
> dependencies in a terminal session. F.e. maybe from the GUI tool we
> can launch a terminal with chosen dependencies (like nix-shell), or
> launch any app that way.

That might be trickier, but I'm sure there's a way we could make it
work.

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