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Pantheon Desktop

Pantheon is the desktop environment created for the elementary OS distribution. It is written from scratch in Vala, utilizing GNOME technologies with GTK 3 and Granite. All of Pantheon is working in NixOS and the applications should be available, aside from a few exceptions. To enable Pantheon, set

services.xserver.desktopManager.pantheon.enable = true;

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diff --git a/icons/Makefile b/icons/Makefile
index 9fa5b30..41cc1b4 100755
--- a/icons/Makefile
+++ b/icons/Makefile
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ sizes = 16 24 32 48 64 72 96 128 256 512 1024
 theme = hicolor
 category = apps
 
-icons = $(foreach size,$(sizes),$(size)x$(size)/$(category)/nix-snowflake.png) \
-	scalable/$(category)/nix-snowflake.svg \

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final: prev:

{
  pantheon = prev.pantheon.overrideScope' (pfinal: pprev: {
    elementary-gsettings-schemas = pfinal.callPackage ./desktop/elementary-gsettings-schemas { };

    #### APPS

    appcenter = pfinal.callPackage ./apps/appcenter { };

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final: prev:

let
  inherit (final) callPackage;
in

{
  pantheon = prev.pantheon.overrideScope' (pfinal: pprev: {
    switchboardPlugs = [
      switchboard-plug-a11y

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{ stdenv, fetchzip }:

let
  pname = "FiraCode";
  version = "v2.0.0";
in
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  name = "${pname}-nerdfont-${version}";

  src = fetchzip {

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Improvements I think we need for aliases

1. Warnings when they're used

nix-build -A adobeReader

warning: adobeReader is an alias for adobe-reader. You should migrate to using this attribute.

these derivations will be built:

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GNOME Desktop

Enabling GNOME

All of the core apps, optional apps, and games from GNOME are available.

To enable the GNOME desktop use:

services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome3.enable = true;

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Releases

Release process

Going through an example of releasing NixOS 19.09:

One month before the beta

• Create an announcement on Discourse as a warning about upcoming beta "feature freeze" in a month. See this post as an example.

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diff --git a/nixos/modules/security/rngd.nix b/nixos/modules/security/rngd.nix
index 5566c53897d..d89f20221dd 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/security/rngd.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/security/rngd.nix
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ in
 
       after = [ "dev-random.device" ];
 
+      conflicts = [ "shutdown.target" ];
+      before = [

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{
	// Place your snippets for xml here. Each snippet is defined under a snippet name and has a prefix, body and
	// description. The prefix is what is used to trigger the snippet and the body will be expanded and inserted. Possible variables are:
	// $1, $2 for tab stops, $0 for the final cursor position, and ${1:label}, ${2:another} for placeholders. Placeholders with the
	// same ids are connected.
	// Example:
	// "Print to console": {
	// 	"prefix": "log",
	// 	"body": [
	// 		"console.log('$1');",