Guided installer

[domenkozar]

Given that options are organized hierarchically and have type annotations, it should in principle be straightforward (though a decent amount of work) to have a general tool for guiding users through the options available in the install process. Bonus points if it can automatically partition/format drives based on the filesystems options.

Moved from NixOS/nixos#99

[lukeadams]

comment on UI mockup by @nbp from the original issue:
reminds me of the Visual Studio Code configuration editor:

In our case, it would have a searchable list of options on the left, on the right only the local configuration.nix.

[nbp]

I want to add making the module system tooling friendly would be simple if we were to add a directory which contains a bunch of files, each having a single option definition.

Another point which might help would be to associate html form templates for each option type, and refine for some specific option declarations. Thus we could make a web UI for tuning each of these parameters. For example, we could a generic input type for strings, for packages, for integers, and have more specific one for timezones, keyboard layouts.

[davidak]

See also #21662

[davidak]

still needed to make nixos more accessible

[davidak]

still needed

[samueldr]

stale, sure... desired still? yes.