Kiwi: A Framework for developing graphical applications in Python Kiwi is a framework composed of a set of modules, which eases Python development using PyGTK. Kiwi makes graphical applications *much* faster to code, with good architecture and more Python-like bindings; it also offers extended widgets based upon the original PyGTK widgets. * Requirements - GTK+ 2.x.x ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.x/XXX - PyGTK 2.x.x ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/v2.x/XXX - Python > 2.3 http://www.python.org/download/ Optional - libglade 2.x http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libglade/XXX It's developed on Linux. It should run on any Unix box that can compile that dependencies. I'm not sure it runs on Windows. * Installation To install (having made sure that the dependencies are installed and working) do (as root normally): python setup.py install (You can optionally provide a prefix using the following form, but if you do remember to setup PYTHONPATH accordingly) python setup.py install [--prefix=<prefix>] * Documentation Included in doc/howto/ and doc/api/ are HTML versions of the developer's guide and API reference, respectively. You can also browse the online versions at: - Developer's guide: http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/howto/ - API documentation: http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/api/ The developer's guide is available in PostScript format from: http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/howto.ps You can regenerate all the documentation; just see doc/Makefile. To generate the API docs you will need: - epydoc http://epydoc.sf.net/ To generate the developer's guide you will need: - Python source (the tarball) http://www.python.org/download/ - LaTeX (various distributions) - latex2html http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~latex2ht/current/ - GhostScript http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ - NetPBM (for latex2html) http://netbpm.sf.net/ * Directory Layout examples/ Contains a number of examples, most of which are referenced in the documentation. Kiwi/ Contains the module code itself; this is installed into your Python's site-packages directory by setup.py. doc/ Contains documentation for Kiwi, including the LaTeX source code which can be used to rebuild the docs. doc/Makefile contains commands to regenerate the full set of docs. extra/ Contains patches to GTK+ and PyGTK code, and helper scripts that can be used to accelerate certain tasks. tests/ Contains a number of test cases for the Kiwi widgets and framework. All checkins and additions of new code should be preceded by a working testcase. * Contact info: URL and download: http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/ Maintainer: Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br>