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

[Raju DV]

On बुधवार 19 ऑगस्ट 2015 06:07 म.नं., Vikas Tara wrote:
> 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.

Exactly, I even tried calamares installation with the Tanglu OS and it
was pretty easy and looked nice as well.

> 
> 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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