nix-editor
A simple rust program to edit NixOS configuration files with just a command (by snowfallorg)
nixos-conf-editor
A libadwaita/gtk4 app for editing NixOS configurations (by snowfallorg)
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nix-editor | nixos-conf-editor | |
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5 | 7 | |
64 | 399 | |
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2.5 | 5.3 | |
about 2 months ago | 3 months ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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nix-editor
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-editor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-20.
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SnowflakeOS - Creating a GUI focused NixOS-based distro
I don't plan on it at this moment, however, if someone finishes the packagekit backend for Nix, the appstream data I'm working on collecting would work to display icons and screenshots. Also if someone who knew qt/kirigami development wanted to make something similar to nix-software-center, the backend tool that reads and modifies configuration values is a separate project: nix-editor, and I would be willing to help with any issues that arose from that.
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Nix Software Center: gtk4/libadwaita app store for NixOS
You can mix and match as much as you want! Both tools use nix-editor to read and modify your configuration.nix file. So any changes made manually would be visible within the tools. Some more complex configuration structures might confuse the tools, but the goal is for it to just work
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NixOS Configuration Editor: A gtk4/libadwaita app to edit and manage basic configurations without (much) coding
Tried it out, lots of cool features! The only nitpick I noticed was that it gets a bit confused with nested attributes, for example programs.gnupg.agent.enable = true; programs.gnupg.agent.enableSSHSupport = true; vs programs.gnupg.agent = { enable = true; enableSSHSupport = true; }; it doesn't seem able to handle the latter case yet. But if you ever wanted to, I made a crate that handles the backend of editing .nix file, nix-editor, crate here: https://crates.io/crates/nix-editor. It also uses rnix and handles all the attribute mess and editing files.
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auto update notifier & gui for non-tech users?
I definitely plan to support as much as I can, but there is definitely a level of complexity that can never be truly translated to a graphical tool. What I've found helpful during development for me is that I split the frontend GUI and the backed parser and editor into two projects (nixos-conf-editor and nix-editor), that way I could tackle a lot of the parsing and editing alone without worrying about specific GUI features needed (and use it for other projects). Later when I need some feature I add it to nix-editor. So far nix-editor supports simple attribute modification, array adding and popping, and recursive attribute definition and dereferencing. It's definitely not perfect by any means, but so far it's been enough for the projects I've been working on. I definitely need to credit any success I've had so far to the developers of rnix-parser which translates nix expression to easy to manage ASTs.
nixos-conf-editor
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-conf-editor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-26.
- AI roasts NixOS users
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SnowflakeOS - Creating a GUI focused NixOS-based distro
Sounds a lot like nixos-conf-editor :) It allows for arbitrary nix code to be set for any option, and evaluates it to check for the correct type before setting it as the value in your configuration file
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Nix Software Center: gtk4/libadwaita app store for NixOS
Actually already made a similar tool :) https://github.com/vlinkz/nixos-conf-editor
- NixOS Configuration Editor: A gtk4/libadwaita app to edit and manage basic configurations without (much) coding
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auto update notifier & gui for non-tech users?
I definitely plan to support as much as I can, but there is definitely a level of complexity that can never be truly translated to a graphical tool. What I've found helpful during development for me is that I split the frontend GUI and the backed parser and editor into two projects (nixos-conf-editor and nix-editor), that way I could tackle a lot of the parsing and editing alone without worrying about specific GUI features needed (and use it for other projects). Later when I need some feature I add it to nix-editor. So far nix-editor supports simple attribute modification, array adding and popping, and recursive attribute definition and dereferencing. It's definitely not perfect by any means, but so far it's been enough for the projects I've been working on. I definitely need to credit any success I've had so far to the developers of rnix-parser which translates nix expression to easy to manage ASTs.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-editor and nixos-conf-editor you can also consider the following projects:
Nixos-Gui - Gui for Nixos package manager
Relm4 - Build truly native applications with ease!
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding
os-installer-snowflake-config
gtk-rs-core - Rust bindings for GNOME libraries
nix-software-center - A simple gtk4/libadwaita software center to easily install and manage nix packages
nixos-appstream-generator - Proof of concept appstream data generator for NixOS
system-updater - Systemd services for checking for and applying system updates.
rnix-parser - A Nix parser written in Rust [maintainer=@oberblastmeister]
NixOS - My personal NixOS related stuff
nix-editor vs Nixos-Gui
nixos-conf-editor vs Nixos-Gui
nix-editor vs Relm4
nixos-conf-editor vs nix-gui
nix-editor vs os-installer-snowflake-config
nixos-conf-editor vs Relm4
nix-editor vs gtk-rs-core
nixos-conf-editor vs nix-software-center
nix-editor vs nixos-appstream-generator
nixos-conf-editor vs system-updater
nix-editor vs rnix-parser
nixos-conf-editor vs NixOS