From: "/#!/JoePea" <trusktr@gmail.com>
To: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Cc: discuss@spectrum-os.org
Subject: Re: GUI for installing compartmentalized apps?
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:15:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKU1PAWAD0HC=gO98qDgRuB=Vy=78MkyO0u+Svhap4SQf_yYFg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgknuek9.fsf@alyssa.is>
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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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-10 5:50 /#!/JoePea
2020-01-10 22:33 ` Alyssa Ross
2020-01-12 19:15 ` /#!/JoePea [this message]
2020-01-12 23:28 ` Alyssa Ross
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