Python app dev tools for Gnome?

[kj]

There's a zillion utility apps that I've had kicking around in my
head for years, but I've never implemented because I absolutely
hate GUI programming.

But I'm increasingly impressed by the quality, stability, and sheer
number, of Gnome apps that I keep coming across that use Python
under the hood.

This gives me hope that maybe programming GUI Python apps for Gnome
these days is no longer the traumatizing experience it used to be
when I last tried it.

Can someone recommend some good tools to speed up the development
of Python apps[1] for Gnome? E.g. is there anything like Xcode
for Gnome+Python?

TIA!

~kj

[1] Needless to say, when I write "apps" I mean full-blown GUI
apps: windows, menus, events, threads, clickable icon, the whole
ball of wax. As opposed to cli apps, panel widgets, etc.

 

[Adam Tauno Williams]

There's a zillion utility apps that I've had kicking around in my
head for years, but I've never implemented because I absolutely
hate GUI programming.
But I'm increasingly impressed by the quality, stability, and sheer
number, of Gnome apps that I keep coming across that use Python
under the hood.
This gives me hope that maybe programming GUI Python apps for Gnome
these days is no longer the traumatizing experience it used to be
when I last tried it.
Can someone recommend some good tools to speed up the development
of Python apps[1] for Gnome? E.g. is there anything like Xcode
for Gnome+Python?

I use Monodevelop for coding in Python, but I'm only writing server-side
Python. While Monodevelop provides an excellent [possibly the best] Gtk
UI designer I believe that component only works for C#.
<http://monodevelop.com/>

There are a variety of articles on the PyGTK
<http://pygtk.org/articles.html> site; Glade is the UI designer you
probably want.
<http://www.micahcarrick.com/gtk-glade-tutorial-part-1.html>
<http://www.micahcarrick.com/gtk-glade-tutorial-part-2.html>
<http://www.micahcarrick.com/gtk-glade-tutorial-part-3.html>
<https://pygabriel.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/writing-pygtk-applications-with-style-using-pygtkhelpers/>

I've also found
<http://tadeboro.blogspot.com/2009/04/creatin-gtktreeview-with-glade-3.html> which covers TreeViews which are the most tedious part of Gtk application development.

Note that, technically, Glade is deprecated and replaced with
GtkBuilder. But I believe the application is still called Glade.

[1] Needless to say, when I write "apps" I mean full-blown GUI
apps: windows, menus, events, threads, clickable icon, the whole
ball of wax. As opposed to cli apps, panel widgets, etc.

Awesome; although I've avoided [to do Python's myriad deployment
issues] Python for fat-client apps I'm becoming more and more tempted.

 

[Dan Stromberg]

There's a zillion utility apps that I've had kicking around in my
head for years, but I've never implemented because I absolutely
hate GUI programming.

But I'm increasingly impressed by the quality, stability, and sheer
number, of Gnome apps that I keep coming across that use Python
under the hood.

This gives me hope that maybe programming GUI Python apps for Gnome
these days is no longer the traumatizing experience it used to be
when I last tried it.

Can someone recommend some good tools to speed up the development
of Python apps[1] for Gnome?  E.g. is there anything like Xcode
for Gnome+Python?

TIA!

~kj

[1] Needless to say, when I write "apps" I mean full-blown GUI
apps: windows, menus, events, threads, clickable icon, the whole
ball of wax.  As opposed to cli apps, panel widgets, etc.

Check out Glade (the standard answer), Illumination (a new tool that
has a very interesting design and goals), wxWindows (can run overtop
of GTK+, but is pretty different from PyGTK to program, and like
PyGTK, enables running on multiple desktop platforms), and pyjamas
(produces GTK GUI's using its own widget set overtop of GTK, and web
2.0 apps, from the same code).

Personally, I prefer to just code PyGTK GUI's manually, but I can't
help but be curious about Ilumination and pyjamas.

Illumination is at:
http://radicalbreeze.com/

....and it purportedly allows you to graphically build apps that run on
PyGTK, Android, iPhone (not mature last I heard), Windows, Haiku - all
automatically generated _from_a_single_description_, and I wouldn't be
surprised if it does more platforms than that by now. It's been
getting a lot of buzz in the Android community, but if it lives up to
its design goals, it probably deserves buzz all over the place.