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minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·23 hours agoI wonder why nobody has created a simple gui for Nixconfig.
minus-squarefrozencow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 hours 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-up2·6 hours agoIt’s less simple than text because it actually takes more space to view the same amount of configs.
minus-squarech8zer@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 hours 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.
I wonder why nobody has created a simple gui for Nixconfig.
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.
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.