[Hamara-devel] Can we use Something like Ubiquity for Hamara sugam

[Vikas Tara]

On 19/08/15 12:48, Raju DV wrote:
>
> On मंगळवार 18 ऑगस्ट 2015 09:06 म.नं., shirish wrote:
>> In-line :-
>>
>> On Tuesday 18 August 2015 04:16 PM, Raju DV wrote:
>>
>> <snipped>
>>
>>> I just found this great alternative to Debian Installer
>>> Calamares,
>>> https://calamares.io/
>> Had seen it before, looks good . The only issue I had before and still
>> do is it uses KDE components/libraries for partitioning :-
>>
>> See the partitioning modules, all of them are KDE components/libraries.
>>
>> I did see that there are almost 28 people who have forked it, see if
>> there is somebody who has instead used the GTK+ toolkit. That is the
>> toolkit that LXDE, MATE, GNOME and XFCE uses so if we are able to use
>> the gtk toolkit, we support out of box two desktop environments and have
>> two more targets that we could easily achieve if we want to in the near
>> future. I *think* this is the reason it doesn't seem to have a major
>> take-up till date.
>
> Some of the distributions who are using Gnome are also using calamares,
> and one of them Tanglu (tanglu.org) is directly based on Debian.
>
> There code is also available on https://github.com/tanglu-org which will
> be useful.
>
> So support for GTK+ is there and can be worked upon.
Looks interesting - but why wouldn't we fix problems with d-i itself?

Also - I don't think gtk support is really that important - it's not 
like the installer is going to stay on the system beyond the 
installation time.

If we did want to make a jump to Calamares - I don't see an issue using 
it's kde components.

Perhaps we should discuss ubiquity vs calamares.

Shame that most of the recent sugam work has been centred around moving 
from ubiquity to d-i :)


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