Workflows

Workflows are all-encompassing NixOS modules for dictating how you interact with your computer/device/whatever. Basically, this is where certain things are set such as your GNOME desktop environment settings, your dolled up standalone window manager setup, or an oddball audio-only desktop interface.

Take note that they are considered as private modules so if you’re not foodogsquared, you shouldn’t use it.

The workflow namespace mainly contains the enable option where you can enable more than one workflows like in the following code. 

{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

{
  workflows.enable = [
    "a-happy-gnome"
    "beepeedobolyuessemm"
  ];
}

However, enabling workflows shouldn’t be taken lightly as they are quite pervasive with what they can configure.

  • Enabling (and/or disabling) system services such as the preferred network manager.

  • Modifying the list of installed applications. This is especially more prevalent when you enable more than workflow module.

  • Setting up programs with custom configurations which could cause conflicts with the defaults (upstream or from nixpkgs) or with another workflow module.

Additionally, you can make your workflow module configurable by setting up options in workflows.workflows.<name> namespace.

foodogsquared
foodogsquared

By organizing the workflow modules this way, you can easily create your desktop rices without overlapping system settings. Bless the Nix module system!

foodogsquared
foodogsquared

Whether those rices are worth posting to Unix ricing communities is up to you though.

Ezran
Ezran

Whippersnappers with your "riced"-up systems…​

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