nix-software-center
A simple gtk4/libadwaita software center to easily install and manage nix packages (by snowfallorg)
nix-editor
A simple rust program to edit NixOS configuration files with just a command (by snowfallorg)
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3.7 | 2.5 | |
10 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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nix-software-center
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-software-center.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.
- Have you convinced anyone to use Nix or NixOS? Friends? Coworkers?
- AI roasts NixOS users
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what are the advantages and disadvantages between nix-env and nix profile
That makes sense, too. You might also be interested in nix software center.
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any way to make NixOS automatically check for Flatpack Updates and notify me?
you can use nix-software-center by vlinkz
- Software center to easily install and manage Nix packages
- @vlinkz: Nix Software Center
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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
building Nix... building the system configuration... copying path '/nix/store/n4ly8q7x7k4bf4hdgxjrrv955n1404a4-glibc-locales-2.35-163' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'... building '/nix/store/wby1m40a39dj4xwy16nvcspn76wng706-source.drv'... trying https://github.com/vlinkz/nix-software-center/archive/0.0.1.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 1212k 0 1212k 0 0 1209k 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 1856k unpacking source archive /build/0.0.1.tar.gz error: hash mismatch in fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/wby1m40a39dj4xwy16nvcspn76wng706-source.drv': specified: sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA= got: sha256-uolXh0z6gRBUZIXVSGyLn3swogz7VHvCwKCr02BejTQ= (use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-software-center and nix-editor you can also consider the following projects:
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding
nixos-conf-editor - A libadwaita/gtk4 app for editing NixOS configurations
nixos-appstream-generator - Proof of concept appstream data generator for NixOS
Nixos-Gui - Gui for Nixos package manager
os-installer-snowflake-config
Relm4 - Build truly native applications with ease!
templates - Flake templates
gtk-rs-core - Rust bindings for GNOME libraries
system-manager - Manage system config using nix on any distro
nix-software-center vs nix-gui
nix-editor vs nixos-conf-editor
nix-software-center vs nixos-appstream-generator
nix-editor vs Nixos-Gui
nix-software-center vs os-installer-snowflake-config
nix-editor vs Relm4
nix-software-center vs templates
nix-editor vs os-installer-snowflake-config
nix-software-center vs nixos-conf-editor
nix-editor vs gtk-rs-core
nix-software-center vs system-manager
nix-editor vs nixos-appstream-generator