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

[Martijn Vermaat]

Both are not exactly what you describe, but:

Here are some ideas on a redesigned Nix UI (not GUI):
https://gist.github.com/edolstra/efcadfd240c2d8906348

I think Shea Levy is working on (some of) this as part of the removing-Perl
effort.

Here is a GUI for installing Nix (work in progress):
https://github.com/cleverca22/nixos-installer




2016-08-04 15:31 GMT-04:00 Taeer Bar-Yam <tb442 at cornell.edu>:

> 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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