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danth / stylix

System-wide colorscheming and typography for NixOS
https://stylix.danth.me/
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stylix: add testbeds for desktop environments #320

Closed danth closed 2 months ago

danth commented 3 months ago

First stage of #319.

This allows a NixOS configuration to be defined for any target by creating a file named testbed.nix in the target directory.

For each testbed.nix, we generate two virtual machines:

TODOs for this PR:

danth commented 3 months ago

Testbed

A testbed is a platform for conducting rigorous, transparent, and replicable testing of scientific theories, computing tools, and new technologies.

danth commented 3 months ago

This depends on #330 since it uses a file name with a space

danth commented 2 months ago

Alternatively, we could simply add the testbed-${testbed.name}-${stylix.polarity} packages to the checks output. This approach might be better than the nix run approach.

These are meant for manual testing, since they open a virtual machine where you can mess around with the application and check the styling. Hence it's important to be able to run an individual testbed as easily as possible.

Using the checks output, to run a testbed you would have to type nix run .#checks.x86_64-linux.testbed-gnome-light, rather than simply nix run .#testbed-gnome-light when they are under packages.

(The testbeds are also built on GitHub Actions, but this is only to pick up on obvious build failures. It's still necessary to do a manual check to see whether anything changed visually.)

Should we add a central testbed package that runs all other testbed-${testbed.name}-${stylix.polarity} packages? This would avoid a complicated nix flake show | | nix run command

As mentioned above, running these opens a virtual machine, so it doesn't make sense to run a large number at once like that.

trueNAHO commented 2 months ago

These are meant for manual testing, since they open a virtual machine where you can mess around with the application and check the styling. Hence it's important to be able to run an individual testbed as easily as possible.

Should we add a central testbed package that runs all other testbed-${testbed.name}-${stylix.polarity} packages? This would avoid a complicated nix flake show | | nix run command

As mentioned above, running these opens a virtual machine, so it doesn't make sense to run a large number at once like that.

I discovered enableParallelBuilding today: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/142338. Do you think we could incorporate this here to speed up the execution time of testing? Considering they are meant for manual testing, parallelizing them would not be good.