[Sway] Re: Anyone been thinking about doing a Sway Spin?

[Philip Rhoades]

Aleksei,


On 2021-08-12 10:53, Aleksei Bavshin wrote:
>  On 8/11/21 5:18 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > People,
> > 
> > I couldn't find anything like this being talked about but it seems 
> > logical and would really suit me at least! - then we wouldn't have to 
> > install Gnome or KDE first . .
>  
>  Hi Phillip,
>  
>  There was a thread about that back in May[1] and Mike Harter published
>  kickstarts[2] for building the spin image. 

I will have a go at using those . .


>  There's also an option to start from minimal (netinstall) image,
> add
>  group definitions and install only the environment you need. I tested
>  that on some of my devices with this repo with groups:
>  https://alebastr.fedorapeople.org/repo/sway-comps.repo. 

I will test that option out on my old Zenbook . .


>  There's no technical blockers for creating a spin. Well,
> selecting the
>  software and making sure that everything works nicely out of the box
>  is hard, but definitely doable. And i3 SIG already offered to help and
>  share their experience. 

Great - I hope to see this idea move along . .


>  IMO, at this point we just need someone interested in this enough to
>  coordinate and drive the effort.
>  
>  [1]:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
>  [2]: https://gitlab.com/main89/fedora-sway-kickstart 

I am prob not clued-up enough for that but would love to participate . .

Thanks!

P.
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