[Nix-dev] Nix GUI? / make Nix more beginner-friendly

[Taeer Bar-Yam]

Roland, We should talk. I would be interested in helping set this up. 

  --Taeer

> On Aug 4, 2016, at 09:52, Tomasz Czyż <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Roland, 
> 
> check: nix-env -iA nixos.nixui
> 
> 2016-08-04 14:21 GMT+01:00 Roland Koebler <rk-list at simple-is-better.org>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I really like the concept of Nix, but I think the commandline-tools
>> are not very beginner-friendly and not very intuitive for non-Nix-users.
>> 
>> Most distributions offer a GUI for package management, but I haven't
>> found one for Nix, although nox looks like a step in the right direction.
>> But the simplest way to search for a package is still
>> https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html
>> 
>> So, I'm thinking of writing a GUI for Nix for managing packages in
>> Python3 + GTK+3. But to prevent duplicate work: Is there already
>> such a GUI, or is someone already working on it?
>> 
>> 
>> regards,
>> Roland
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