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Author:     Alfonso S. Siciliano <asiciliano@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2026-10-06 19:28:15 +0000
Commit:     Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2026-10-21 12:05:21 +0000

    Status/2026Q3/desktop-bsdinstall.adoc: Add report
    
    Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/724
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+=== Desktop Script for bsdinstall
+
+Links: +
+link:https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/25[Laptop Support and Usability Project Task] URL: link:https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/25[] +
+link:https://gitlab.com/alfix/kde-installer-dialogs[Project repository] URL: link:https://gitlab.com/alfix/kde-installer-dialogs[]
+
+Contact: Alfonso S. Siciliano <asiciliano@FreeBSD.org>
+
+The goal of this project is to provide a simple feature in man:bsdinstall[8], the FreeBSD system installer, to install and configure a graphical environment.
+The installer should ask users whether they want to install a desktop environment and, if so, automatically install and configure everything needed with minimal or no user intervention.
+After reboot, users should be presented with a graphical login screen.
+
+In the first 2026 status report, a possible solution was described: a shell script of approximately 400 lines of code to install and automatically configure the components required for a graphical desktop environment, including GPU drivers, Xorg, KDE Plasma, and SDDM.
+After a call for testing, which received a significant amount of feedback from users, review D56167 was submitted to add the new desktop script to bsdinstall.
+
+After the review was submitted, several discussions took place about the proposed implementation.
+As a result of the review, it was requested to split the script into smaller components and move part of its functionality into separate ports.
+The review, D56167, is now obsolete.
+Several possible approaches were then analyzed and tested.
+
+The chosen solution is to create new ports with flavors.
+
+The base port provides the tools to build menus and/or return to the script a list of packages to install.
+The menu utilities are implemented as shell scripts because the design of a Lua API for the text user interfaces is still in progress.
+
+Each flavor provides a man:pkg-post-install-lua[5] script to configure the package installed on the new system.
+pkg-post-install-lua was chosen instead of the man:pkg-post-install[5] shell script because it will make it easier to reuse the code if it becomes necessary to use man:pkg-trigger[5] in the future.
+
+The following four new ports with flavors, with a total of 26 packages, have been created and submitted to Bugzilla:
+
+* x11/bsdinstall-desktop PR298402
+  ** Base port utilities: bsdinstall-desktop-checks, bsdinstall-desktop-users with menu support.
+  ** Flavor: -audio.
+
+* graphics/bsdinstall-gpu PR298413
+  ** Base port utility: bsdinstall-gpu with menu support.
+  ** Flavors: -amd, -drm, -intel, -nv304, -nv340, -nv390, -nv470, -nv580, -nv595, -nv610, -nvaddons, -nvoptimus, -radeon, -scfb, -vbox, -vesa, -vmware.
+
+* x11/bsdinstall-de PR298442
+  ** Base port utility: bsdinstall-de.
+  ** Flavors: -kde, -wireplumber.
+
+* x11/bsdinstall-dm PR298455
+  ** Base port utility: bsdinstall-dm with menu support.
+  ** Flavors: -ly, -sddm.
+
+A new draft of the desktop script has also been completed in the project repository.
+It is significantly different from the original script and is now approximately 100 lines of code.
+A new review to add the desktop script to bsdinstall will be submitted after the new ports have been added to the Ports Collection.
+
+This is still an experimental feature.
+In the future, depending on user interest and feedback, the desktop script can be further improved to support additional desktop environments and graphical tools.
+
+Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation