Hello Tobias and Jonathan,
> 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. No, I kept connman as the installer network-manager. > 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 My main concern with Calamares, Anaconda & friends is that we will inevitably have to write some Python/C++ to adapt it to Guix System installation. Now that we have Guile code covering the whole installation and associated automated tests, I would prefer not to use those external tools. > 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. I agree that even though GNOME is heavy and hard to configure, its also probably to most popular DE. To adapt the current installer to GNOME, we would need to: * Switch from connman to NetworkManager. * Add DBus bindings to control NetworkManager. * Use 'setxkbmap' or a GNOME API to handle keyboard layout switching. * Open the info page somewhere else than on TTY2, maybe in a Web-browser. Thanks, Mathieu
