Re: GUI for installing compartmentalized apps?

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(a)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!