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Home Assistant Linux Companion
https://halcyon.casa/
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What GUI toolkit do we want to use? #18

Closed kprestel closed 3 years ago

kprestel commented 3 years ago

I figure at some point we will want to add a GUI to this. Does anyone have any suggestions for which toolkit/crate we should use?

RealOrangeOne commented 3 years ago

My strong recommendation would be not to have a GUI.

Keeping everything config-file driven is a small hurdle for use, but given to use HA you need at least a fundemental understanding of YAML, it's not a big ask. It also makes it easy to transfer between machines, version control, and do fun things around templating, much like HA does.

Maintaining a GUI requires significantly more code and complexity and scope for bugs.

I'd be open to a halcyon config command which opens the config file in $EDITOR though as a middleground.

kprestel commented 3 years ago

I agree, that makes sense to me.

We can add a GUI later on if we want to.