Mathieu, Jonathan,A truly graphical installer would be glorious. Exploring it was what led to the quick & dirty zisofs patch.
Like you I was able to get a surprisingly working Gnome desktop, but it was very rough at the edges. (However my compressed images were closer to 1.4 GiB than your 1.7 which might explain that; cut out things like GDM &c.).
Are you, for example, able to connect to a Wi-Fi network the Gnome way (not using the installer), without a Gnome authentication dialogue popping up that doesn't understand the notion of ‘no password’? I had to open a terminal and ‘passwd’ myself out of that to continue.
I ran into so many paper cuts like this I burnt out due to Gnome being, you know, Gnome.
Mathieu Othacehe 写道：
Now, I'm not sure this is something we want to merge as-is. Maybe, it'stime to port the installer to a GTK3 application, or a Web application. As we already have something working, porting (gnu installer) to a new graphical backend, could be not so hard.
Last time I brought this up someone mentioned using Calamares[0]. Not that I think that's a good idea, but it's another data point for discussion :-p
Jonathan Brielmaier 写道：
Nice initiative! Maybe it would be an idea to use XFCE instead of GNOME as it's tend to be a little smaller. And maybe more stable as they don'thave that many releases...
As much as I dislike Gnome, I think we should first try to use the (most likely) default desktop during the installation, and I do think that's currently Gnome.
Not at all costs of course. Size. Stability. Sanity. Kind regards, T G-R [0]: https://calamares.io/
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