Notice: penGUI is not yet a finished software, it is still in embryo and is deciding how to grow. However, it is already useful for both experts and novices to set up eggs and also to get-at a glance-a complete picture. You can find and run all the eggs commands from the menu; on the toolbar we have just the most used commands: dad, produce and kill.
Notice: In case penGUI does not start, you can try installing libxcb-cursor. eg:
sudo apt-get install libxcb-cursor
I tried pengui on Debian and Arch, on arch I used the .bin version, there is not a PKGBUILD for now.
On Debian and Arch is working, start and - on Debian can produce ISOs - on Arch I don't know why refuse.
You can download penGUI and install it with dpkg -i pengui-0.2.x.deb and start from the terminal giving: pengui as normal user or from the the usual desktop link. There is not yet a package for Arch, Manjaro and derivatives but you can directly use the pengui-x-x-x.bin which is an executable.
The icon is changed now, I still a penguin from wikipedia, the icon was created from user FormalDude: thanks a lot! I like it very much, and I think can adopt this nice penguin, we need same others icons too and I home some graphic designer will take the trouble to design a custom icon, I'm not able.
To check the progress of the project status refer to the CHANGELOG, however things are changing rapidly and penGUI can already be considered usable.
penGUI uses x-terminal-emulator to open a terminal window and launch eggs commands; which terminal will be opened depends on your configuration, but you can change it with the command:
sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
On my development machine, I feelme confortable with xfce4-terminal.
On Arch I just created a link:
sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
penGUI makes it easier to learn Eggs commands; once you learn them, you will probably use it less, but a GUI for penguins-eggs was needed and is now there.
For penGUI development I am using python 3.11.2 and PySide6 on a common Debian bookworm, in my case the classic colibri.
I added only the following packages:
sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install python3-full python-is-python3
For pyside6 to work properly, I also installed:
sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0 libpython3.11
This is the repository of pengui, to get this sources just:
git clone https://github.com/pieroproietti/pengui
It is recommended, however to create yourself a fork of the repository, so that you can manage the project yourself and possibly create some Pull Requests.
You need to install sudo apt install python3-pip python3-venv
Just run bin/create_venv from the root of the project and and follow the instructions. Under bin, there are usefull scripts to run, create-bin, create-deb, etc. They must always be run from the root of the project and have a self-explanatory name.
We are using nuitka 2.1.4 on python 3.11.
sudo apt install ccache patchelf
To create debian packages we use fpm.
First install ruby sudo apt install ruby, them with gem install fpm.