# A desktop environment selector. import archinstall is_top_level_profile = True __description__ = 'Provides a selection of desktop environments and tiling window managers, e.g. gnome, kde, sway' # New way of defining packages for a profile, which is iterable and can be used out side # of the profile to get a list of "what packages will be installed". __packages__ = [ 'nano', 'vim', 'openssh', 'htop', 'wget', 'iwd', 'wireless_tools', 'wpa_supplicant', 'smartmontools', 'xdg-utils', ] __supported__ = [ 'gnome', 'kde', 'awesome', 'sway', 'cinnamon', 'xfce4', 'lxqt', 'i3', 'budgie', 'mate', 'deepin', 'enlightenment', ] def _prep_function(*args, **kwargs): """ Magic function called by the importing installer before continuing any further. It also avoids executing any other code in this stage. So it's a safe way to ask the user for more input before any other installer steps start. """ desktop = archinstall.generic_select(__supported__, 'Select your desired desktop environment: ', allow_empty_input=False, sort=True) # Temporarily store the selected desktop profile # in a session-safe location, since this module will get reloaded # the next time it gets executed. if not archinstall.storage.get('_desktop_profile', None): archinstall.storage['_desktop_profile'] = desktop if not archinstall.arguments.get('desktop-environment', None): archinstall.arguments['desktop-environment'] = desktop profile = archinstall.Profile(None, desktop) # Loading the instructions with a custom namespace, ensures that a __name__ comparison is never triggered. with profile.load_instructions(namespace=f"{desktop}.py") as imported: if hasattr(imported, '_prep_function'): return imported._prep_function() else: print(f"Deprecated (??): {desktop} profile has no _prep_function() anymore") if __name__ == 'desktop': """ This "profile" is a meta-profile. There are no desktop-specific steps, it simply routes the installer to whichever desktop environment/window manager was chosen. Maybe in the future, a network manager or similar things *could* be added here. We should honor that Arch Linux does not officially endorse a desktop-setup, nor is it trying to be a turn-key desktop distribution. There are plenty of desktop-turn-key-solutions based on Arch Linux, this is therefore just a helper to get started """ # Install common packages for all desktop environments archinstall.storage['installation_session'].add_additional_packages(__packages__) archinstall.storage['installation_session'].install_profile(archinstall.storage['_desktop_profile'])