[Nix-dev] NixOS: Graphical User Interface

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 04/24/2011 08:14 PM, Nicolas Pierron wrote:

> I don't know how many of you ever encounter the directory named gui in
> the source tree of NixOS ...  So I am pleased to announce the first
> graphical tool (at least introduced on this mailing list) to watch for
> NixOS options.
>
> http://nbp.name/img/nixos-gui.png

Cool :-)

> The current usage of this tool is to explore options, and see the
> current value, the default value, the example, the description, where
> the option is declared and where it is defined.  It is based on
> nixos-option tool which fetch the information out of NixOS
> configurations and output a XML which is then interpreted by nixos-gui
> to display the option tree.  It load options in a lazy fashion
> otherwise loading all options would take too much time and resources
> to make it usable.

Wouldn't it actually be faster to load them all at the same time?  Now it takes 
a second or two to click on an option, while evaluating *all* the options and 
dumping them to XML shouldn't take much longer.

> - Make an edit option to modify the content of $NIXOS_CONFIG.

That would be really nice.

-- 
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/