JackTulli/Linux-explorer v1.40.0

1.40.0: the installer asks what to install, and a light setup

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• The installer asks what to put in. Installing used to mean all of it. install.sh now opens with a question, and so does the one-command install:

  1. Everything  every look, every program, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and
                 Windows programs through Wine and Proton
  2. Standard    every look and program, without Wine and Proton
  3. Light       the shell and the basic programs -- Explorer, Notepad,
                 Calculator, Task Manager, Control Panel, Display
                 Properties, Windows Update -- and the classic look alone
  4. Choose      answer for each part
  

  The four parts that can be left out are the looks besides the classic colour schemes (XP, Vista, Windows 7 Aero and Modern, with their wallpapers, icon sets, sound packs and the matching GTK, Qt and Kvantum themes), the programs past the basic set (Paint, Imaging, Snipping Tool, Character Map, Device Manager, Disk Management, the file picker and the portal), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Devices (NetworkManager, bluez), and Windows programs (Wine, and Proton Manager for games). Light is about 17 MB installed against 49 MB for everything, and asks the package manager for none of those.

• Answer it ahead of time. --setup full|standard|light|custom, or a part at a time with --looks/--no-looks, --all-apps/--basic-apps, --wireless/--no-wireless and --windows/--no-windows; --yes takes the answers as they stand. Before the one-command install, export W2K_SETUP=light does the same. Where there is nobody at the keyboard -- cloud-init, a container, a script -- nothing is asked and everything goes in, as it always did.

• It remembers. What was chosen is kept in /usr/local/share/w2k/setup.conf and used again, so an update installs the same set and asks nothing. Running install.sh --windows later adds a part, and moving to a lighter setup takes the parts it drops back off the machine.

• Control Panel lists only what is installed. An applet whose program is not there -- Bluetooth Devices, Device Manager, Disk Management, Network and Dial-up Connections, Proton Manager -- is left out rather than shown as an icon that does nothing.

For people who build by hand

make install takes INSTALL_BINS, INSTALL_LOOKS and INSTALL_SOUNDS, and tools/fetch-themes.sh --classic-only fetches Chicago95 alone.

curl -fsSL https://jacktulli.github.io/w2k | sh