ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoThree Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglypierrezemb.frexternal-linkmessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1185 cross-posted to: linux@programming.devlinux@programming.dev
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minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI wonder why nobody has created a simple gui for Nixconfig.
minus-squarech8zer@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoSomething like this is really hard to make a gui for. I suppose a GUI would only be useful for discovering config values? Either way, a gui would likely look like YAST on OpenSuse.
minus-squarefrozencow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoSomeone has done just that: https://github.com/snowfallorg/nixos-conf-editor It is part of https://snowflakeos.org/, though I don’t know about its developments atm.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoIt’s less simple than text because it actually takes more space to view the same amount of configs.
I wonder why nobody has created a simple gui for Nixconfig.
Something like this is really hard to make a gui for. I suppose a GUI would only be useful for discovering config values?
Either way, a gui would likely look like YAST on OpenSuse.
Someone has done just that: https://github.com/snowfallorg/nixos-conf-editor It is part of https://snowflakeos.org/, though I don’t know about its developments atm.
It’s less simple than text because it actually takes more space to view the same amount of configs.