Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread David Roberts
 /home/fetchinson/pyzui/pyzui/tilestore.py:22: DeprecationWarning: the
 sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
   import sha
Yeah, I'd noticed that. It's fixed in the repository now.

On Dec 16, 10:55 pm, Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com
wrote:
  PyZUI 0.1 has been released:

 http://da.vidr.cc/projects/pyzui/

 Cool, thanks very much!

 I'm using python 2.6 these days and noticed that you use the sha
 module which makes py2.6 spit out a deprecation warning:

 /home/fetchinson/pyzui/pyzui/tilestore.py:22: DeprecationWarning: the
 sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
   import sha

 It's no big deal but if you want to be future proof maybe you can
 switch to hashlib for py2.6 and stay with sha for py2.5 and before (a
 try/except block would suffice).

 Cheers,
 Daniel

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread David Roberts
 Personally I see a merging of normal app windows and a zui: some kind of new
 window manager.
Have you seen Eagle Mode[1]?

[1] http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/

On Dec 17, 5:14 pm, Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:03:19 David Roberts wrote: It involves 
 scaling an image to various resolutions, and partitioning
  them into fixed-size tiles. It's roughly the same technique used by
  Google Maps/Earth.

 Thanks. That gives me something to go on. Wikipedia didn't like my search
 terms.

   ZUIs are useful for particular types of data - images  mapping
   especially - but I'd hate to have to navigate my desktop using its
   approach.

 Ever since Corel Draw in the 90's zoomed into my life I have been in love with
 the idea of an endless canvas that makes me feel like a satellite on a bungee
 cord. I think it would fit the desktop very well.

 Personally I see a merging of normal app windows and a zui: some kind of new
 window manager.
 If I planned it out it would look something like this:
 Your apps all run as they do now*, but they live on this endless plain.
 Perhaps it can be divided up into 'zones' or 'galaxies' or something. I would
 have a 'hyperspace' or 'hyperlink' or 'jump' facility (like alt-tab, I guess)
 to make transits from one custom-defined area to another quick.

 I would have a home position for the view -- like Inkscape does in terms of
 show all, zoom to selected, zoom to last, etc.

 I would have rules about traversing. Things like file-managers need some kind
 of static display - like the bread crumbs and up, back, home etc.

 Each app would only be active when 'locked-in', beyond that it's a bitmap of
 the last paint. You could drag apps around when you zoom out, and you can
 resize them at any time too.
 (Just imagine OOCalc in a zui! Super/Capslock and mouse wheel for scroll/pan)

 The other cool idea I had was to (handwavium here) graphically convey the
 notion of pipes and import/export between apps. Also between any nodes across
 the Universe of the zui. Perhaps a special 'node view' that overlays and shows
 all the conduits between them -- sharp where your mouse is, faded away from
 that so the whole thing is not too complex.
 Imagine the flow from Inkscape to Gimp and back. Instead of File - Export and
 then File - Import, you connect pipes along the side of each app.
 Inkscape, [save selected as png (properties preset)] goes to Gimp [import to
 layers by names (a script perhaps)] Now as you work in Inkscape and hit a
 hotkey, all your selected vectors are sent to Gimp which reacts as if you were
 there and places the new pngs into layers.
 This can work both ways and between multiple programs. Mix-in Blender and
 Scribus and Lyx and some grep and a loop or two and some imagemagick...

 Ah, I better stop. I can ramble on sometimes :)

 *I have many issues with the endless variety of re-invented wheels afa gui
 toolkits go. This is another whole can of shai-Hulud...

 I wrote some stuff about this a while back, if anyone wants to be put to 
 sleep:http://otherwise.relics.co.za/wiki/Particles/DreamDesignApp/
 :)

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread Donn
On Thursday 17 December 2009 10:54:59 David Roberts wrote:
 Have you seen Eagle Mode[1]?
 
Yes. It's a strange beast. Good start I think; but addicted to zooming, to the 
detriment of the managing aspects I think. Still, here I sit writing no code 
and pontificating!

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
 /home/fetchinson/pyzui/pyzui/tilestore.py:22: DeprecationWarning: the
 sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
   import sha
 Yeah, I'd noticed that. It's fixed in the repository now.

Great, thanks, pulled it and all looks good.

Cheers,
Daniel


  PyZUI 0.1 has been released:

 http://da.vidr.cc/projects/pyzui/

 Cool, thanks very much!

 I'm using python 2.6 these days and noticed that you use the sha
 module which makes py2.6 spit out a deprecation warning:

 /home/fetchinson/pyzui/pyzui/tilestore.py:22: DeprecationWarning: the
 sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
   import sha

 It's no big deal but if you want to be future proof maybe you can
 switch to hashlib for py2.6 and stay with sha for py2.5 and before (a
 try/except block would suffice).

 Cheers,
 Daniel

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread Terry Reedy

On 12/17/2009 2:14 AM, Donn wrote:

On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:03:19 David Roberts wrote:

It involves scaling an image to various resolutions, and partitioning
them into fixed-size tiles. It's roughly the same technique used by
Google Maps/Earth.

Thanks. That gives me something to go on. Wikipedia didn't like my search
terms.


ZUIs are useful for particular types of data - images  mapping
especially - but I'd hate to have to navigate my desktop using its
approach.

Ever since Corel Draw in the 90's zoomed into my life I have been in love with
the idea of an endless canvas that makes me feel like a satellite on a bungee
cord. I think it would fit the desktop very well.

Personally I see a merging of normal app windows and a zui: some kind of new
window manager.


The original idea, perhaps, was from Jef Raskin in The Human Interface. 
Wikipedia has articles on both. His idea was for a document rather than 
app centric plain. Not clear how one would pipe data from app to app in 
his model, though.


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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread Donn
On Thursday 17 December 2009 19:46:41 Terry Reedy wrote:
 His idea was for a document rather than 
 app centric plain. 
These days I find the notion of monolithic apps to be a pita. 
The concept of many small black boxes (but open source) that each do a single 
job and pipe in/out is so much more powerful. I don't see why everything in a 
gui and down can't be such a box. Then we get to wire them together as needed. 
We'd still have 'big apps' but they would be constructed more loosely and we 
could adapt them to fit real life needs.

I dunno. I think big apps are dinosaurs. As much as I love Inkscape and 
Blender and others, they are all islands with vast gulfs between them.

And let's have Python glue them all together!

 Not clear how one would pipe data from app to app in 
 his model, though.
The picture I have of it is illustrated by Blender's material node system. 
have a look at this pic:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Working_with_Nodes_Blender.PNG
Just a mental jump-off point. Think bash meets zui with a Python driving. :D

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-16 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
 PyZUI 0.1 has been released:

 http://da.vidr.cc/projects/pyzui/

Cool, thanks very much!

I'm using python 2.6 these days and noticed that you use the sha
module which makes py2.6 spit out a deprecation warning:

/home/fetchinson/pyzui/pyzui/tilestore.py:22: DeprecationWarning: the
sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sha

It's no big deal but if you want to be future proof maybe you can
switch to hashlib for py2.6 and stay with sha for py2.5 and before (a
try/except block would suffice).

Cheers,
Daniel


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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-16 Thread r0g
David Roberts wrote:
 PyZUI 0.1 has been released:
 
 http://da.vidr.cc/projects/pyzui/
 

Cool, thanks :)

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-16 Thread Donn
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 09:42:14 David Roberts wrote:
 PyZUI 0.1 has been released:
Magic! Grabbed a tarball yesterday. 

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-16 Thread Donn
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:03:19 David Roberts wrote:
 It involves scaling an image to various resolutions, and partitioning
 them into fixed-size tiles. It's roughly the same technique used by
 Google Maps/Earth.
Thanks. That gives me something to go on. Wikipedia didn't like my search 
terms.
 
  ZUIs are useful for particular types of data - images  mapping
  especially - but I'd hate to have to navigate my desktop using its
  approach.
Ever since Corel Draw in the 90's zoomed into my life I have been in love with 
the idea of an endless canvas that makes me feel like a satellite on a bungee 
cord. I think it would fit the desktop very well.

Personally I see a merging of normal app windows and a zui: some kind of new 
window manager. 
If I planned it out it would look something like this:
Your apps all run as they do now*, but they live on this endless plain. 
Perhaps it can be divided up into 'zones' or 'galaxies' or something. I would 
have a 'hyperspace' or 'hyperlink' or 'jump' facility (like alt-tab, I guess) 
to make transits from one custom-defined area to another quick.

I would have a home position for the view -- like Inkscape does in terms of 
show all, zoom to selected, zoom to last, etc.

I would have rules about traversing. Things like file-managers need some kind 
of static display - like the bread crumbs and up, back, home etc.

Each app would only be active when 'locked-in', beyond that it's a bitmap of 
the last paint. You could drag apps around when you zoom out, and you can 
resize them at any time too.
(Just imagine OOCalc in a zui! Super/Capslock and mouse wheel for scroll/pan)

The other cool idea I had was to (handwavium here) graphically convey the 
notion of pipes and import/export between apps. Also between any nodes across 
the Universe of the zui. Perhaps a special 'node view' that overlays and shows 
all the conduits between them -- sharp where your mouse is, faded away from 
that so the whole thing is not too complex.
Imagine the flow from Inkscape to Gimp and back. Instead of File - Export and 
then File - Import, you connect pipes along the side of each app. 
Inkscape, [save selected as png (properties preset)] goes to Gimp [import to 
layers by names (a script perhaps)] Now as you work in Inkscape and hit a 
hotkey, all your selected vectors are sent to Gimp which reacts as if you were 
there and places the new pngs into layers. 
This can work both ways and between multiple programs. Mix-in Blender and 
Scribus and Lyx and some grep and a loop or two and some imagemagick...

Ah, I better stop. I can ramble on sometimes :)

*I have many issues with the endless variety of re-invented wheels afa gui 
toolkits go. This is another whole can of shai-Hulud...

I wrote some stuff about this a while back, if anyone wants to be put to sleep:
http://otherwise.relics.co.za/wiki/Particles/DreamDesignApp/
:)

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread Donn
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 04:29:39 David Roberts wrote:
 Yes, the toolkit used is PyQt.
\me makes note to start learning PyQt asap.

 and employs pyramidal tiling for efficiency 
\me ... time to hit Wikipedia :)

 (I haven't used any Qt/KDE voodoo in this regard).
Imho, your code should *become* that voodoo -- from what I saw in that vid 
it's unique and has such promise.

 QtWebKit, and PDF with the pdftoppm utility.
Ah, thanks.
 
 The project is opensource (GPLv2), but just hasn't been published
 yet :) . I'll try to make a release over the next few days, and I'll
 post a link here when I do.
Can't wait.

David, thanks for replying here on the list. Well done on your pyZui and I 
hope it catches fire in people's imaginations. I think that fire may explain 
why 
my socks are missing! :D

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread Martijn Arts
You could do some really awesome stuff with that! I love the webpage example
where you zoom in on the exclamation mark and there's a new page.

Just imagine the possibilities!

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tuesday 15 December 2009 04:29:39 David Roberts wrote:
  Yes, the toolkit used is PyQt.
 \me makes note to start learning PyQt asap.

  and employs pyramidal tiling for efficiency
 \me ... time to hit Wikipedia :)

  (I haven't used any Qt/KDE voodoo in this regard).
 Imho, your code should *become* that voodoo -- from what I saw in that vid
 it's unique and has such promise.

  QtWebKit, and PDF with the pdftoppm utility.
 Ah, thanks.

  The project is opensource (GPLv2), but just hasn't been published
  yet :) . I'll try to make a release over the next few days, and I'll
  post a link here when I do.
 Can't wait.

 David, thanks for replying here on the list. Well done on your pyZui and I
 hope it catches fire in people's imaginations. I think that fire may
 explain why
 my socks are missing! :D

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread Donn
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 11:12:21 Martijn Arts wrote:
 You could do some really awesome stuff with that! I love the webpage
  example where you zoom in on the exclamation mark and there's a new page.
 
It is very cool, but I would inject a note of caution here: I'd a hate a zui 
to become a case of hunt-the-zoom.  A link is a link. They already work very 
well, click and it goes to the page. 
 I find the notion of minute hot areas to be a little obscure -- Quick! Zoom 
into the last full-stop, it's a whole word in there! 
What I would enjoy is when you click a link - it zooms into the sub-page so 
you get a feeling of traversal. Back buttons would zoom out again. Add to that 
a kind of birds'-eye view of one's history (like a thumbnails node-graph of 
some kind) and it would be perfect!

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread alex23
Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote:
 I find the notion of minute hot areas to be a little obscure -- Quick! Zoom
 into the last full-stop, it's a whole word in there!

This aspect reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode Back to Reality, in
which Rimmer is criticised for not finding information contained in a
microdot hidden in the dot on the 'i' of his name on a swimming
certificate.

ZUIs are useful for particular types of data - images  mapping
especially - but I'd hate to have to navigate my desktop using its
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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread David Roberts
  and employs pyramidal tiling for efficiency

 \me ... time to hit Wikipedia :)
It involves scaling an image to various resolutions, and partitioning
them into fixed-size tiles. It's roughly the same technique used by
Google Maps/Earth.

 It is very cool, but I would inject a note of caution here: I'd a hate a zui
 to become a case of hunt-the-zoom.  A link is a link. They already work very
 well, click and it goes to the page.
  I find the notion of minute hot areas to be a little obscure -- Quick! Zoom
 into the last full-stop, it's a whole word in there!
 What I would enjoy is when you click a link - it zooms into the sub-page so
 you get a feeling of traversal. Back buttons would zoom out again. Add to that
 a kind of birds'-eye view of one's history (like a thumbnails node-graph of
 some kind) and it would be perfect!
Sure, it was just a quick mockup of a potential application. A proper
implementation would probably have more sophisticated features such as
that.

 This aspect reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode Back to Reality, in
 which Rimmer is criticised for not finding information contained in a
 microdot hidden in the dot on the 'i' of his name on a swimming
 certificate.
Haha, true.

 ZUIs are useful for particular types of data - images  mapping
 especially - but I'd hate to have to navigate my desktop using its
 approach.
Obviously there will be some applications that suit more traditional
GUIs better than ZUIs, just like there's plenty of applications more
suited to the command-line than a GUI. After all, things such as the
web and the desktop metaphor came into being long before ZUIs.

On Dec 16, 1:09 pm, alex23 wuwe...@gmail.com wrote:
 Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote:
  I find the notion of minute hot areas to be a little obscure -- Quick! 
  Zoom
  into the last full-stop, it's a whole word in there!

 This aspect reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode Back to Reality, in
 which Rimmer is criticised for not finding information contained in a
 microdot hidden in the dot on the 'i' of his name on a swimming
 certificate.

 ZUIs are useful for particular types of data - images  mapping
 especially - but I'd hate to have to navigate my desktop using its
 approach.

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread David Roberts
PyZUI 0.1 has been released:

http://da.vidr.cc/projects/pyzui/

On Dec 15, 12:29 pm, David Roberts d...@vidr.cc wrote:
 Hi,

 Yes, the toolkit used is PyQt. The ZUI is implemented using a simple
 QPainter, and employs pyramidal tiling for efficiency (I haven't used
 any Qt/KDE voodoo in this regard). I'm using Gnome at the moment, but
 it should work just as well on KDE. Web pages are rendered using
 QtWebKit, and PDF with the pdftoppm utility.

 The project is opensource (GPLv2), but just hasn't been published
 yet :) . I'll try to make a release over the next few days, and I'll
 post a link here when I do.

 --
 David Robertshttp://da.vidr.cc/

 On Dec 15, 10:33 am, Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote:



  On Tuesday 15 December 2009 01:43:52 David Boddie wrote: I managed to 
  catch his address and sent him a message saying that people
   were discussing PyZUI in this thread.

  Oooh. Sits,fidgets and waits. I want my socks back! (OP) :D

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread Donn
On Monday 14 December 2009 00:10:52 David Boddie wrote:
 Doesn't the author give his e-mail address at the end of the video?
 (Maybe I'm thinking of a different video.)
 
Yes, in a quick and garbled way :) I have yet to try to contact the author or 
the youtube poster -- been too busy.

I was hoping someone on the list may recognize what tools he was using, or 
have some insight into how they would attack the problem.
I have pondered it from a wxPython pov, that being all I am experienced with 
and I would have no chance of recreating that demo. Is it using some kind of 
built-in QT/KDE voodoo?

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread geremy condra
might be related to this: http://code.google.com/p/rchi-zui/

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread Rami Chowdhury
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:02, Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Monday 14 December 2009 00:10:52 David Boddie wrote:
 Doesn't the author give his e-mail address at the end of the video?
 (Maybe I'm thinking of a different video.)

 Yes, in a quick and garbled way :) I have yet to try to contact the author or
 the youtube poster -- been too busy.

 I was hoping someone on the list may recognize what tools he was using, or
 have some insight into how they would attack the problem.
 I have pondered it from a wxPython pov, that being all I am experienced with
 and I would have no chance of recreating that demo. Is it using some kind of
 built-in QT/KDE voodoo?


Doesn't look like he's using KDE -- the filemanager he's using to
choose images looks rather like Nautilus.

I know KDE 4's Plasma framework has a ZUI and pretty good Python
bindings, but I know very little about them other than that they
exist.


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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 14 December 2009 20:02, Donn wrote:

 On Monday 14 December 2009 00:10:52 David Boddie wrote:
 Doesn't the author give his e-mail address at the end of the video?
 (Maybe I'm thinking of a different video.)
 
 Yes, in a quick and garbled way :) I have yet to try to contact the author
 or the youtube poster -- been too busy.

I managed to catch his address and sent him a message saying that people
were discussing PyZUI in this thread.

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread Donn
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 01:43:52 David Boddie wrote:
 I managed to catch his address and sent him a message saying that people
 were discussing PyZUI in this thread.
 
Oooh. Sits,fidgets and waits. I want my socks back! (OP) :D

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread David Roberts
Hi,

Yes, the toolkit used is PyQt. The ZUI is implemented using a simple
QPainter, and employs pyramidal tiling for efficiency (I haven't used
any Qt/KDE voodoo in this regard). I'm using Gnome at the moment, but
it should work just as well on KDE. Web pages are rendered using
QtWebKit, and PDF with the pdftoppm utility.

The project is opensource (GPLv2), but just hasn't been published
yet :) . I'll try to make a release over the next few days, and I'll
post a link here when I do.

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http://da.vidr.cc/

On Dec 15, 10:33 am, Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tuesday 15 December 2009 01:43:52 David Boddie wrote: I managed to catch 
 his address and sent him a message saying that people
  were discussing PyZUI in this thread.

 Oooh. Sits,fidgets and waits. I want my socks back! (OP) :D

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-13 Thread David Boddie
On Friday 11 December 2009 05:41, Donn wrote:

 I happened upon this youtube link:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nWm984wdY
 It fairly blew my socks off. In it a fellow by the name of David Roberts
 demos a zui written in Python. Aside from the zooming (which is impressive
 enough) it show embedding of images, pdf files, web pages and text.
 
 He says nothing about what toolkits were used or how it might have been
 done. It's Linux-based, but no other info. On some googling, I can only
 find a few bug reports on pypi related to pyQt. I would really like to
 find out how that ZUI was done, it's simply amazing.
 
 Any clues out there?

Doesn't the author give his e-mail address at the end of the video?
(Maybe I'm thinking of a different video.)

David
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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
 Hi,
 I happened upon this youtube link:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nWm984wdY
 It fairly blew my socks off. In it a fellow by the name of David Roberts
 demos
 a zui written in Python. Aside from the zooming (which is impressive enough)
 it show embedding of images, pdf files, web pages and text.

 He says nothing about what toolkits were used or how it might have been
 done.
 It's Linux-based, but no other info. On some googling, I can only find a few
 bug reports on pypi related to pyQt. I would really like to find out how
 that
 ZUI was done, it's simply amazing.

 Any clues out there?

Youtube has a link 'Send message' on the profile of users, maybe
sending a message to the person who uploaded the video will give you a
useful response.

Cheers,
Daniel


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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-11 Thread Donn
On Friday 11 December 2009 12:38:46 Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
 Youtube has a link 'Send message' on the profile of users, maybe
 sending a message to the person who uploaded the video will give you a
 useful response.
 
I'm a Tube-tard so that never crossed my mind. Will give it a go.

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Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-11 Thread Stef Mientki

Donn wrote:

On Friday 11 December 2009 12:38:46 Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
  

Youtube has a link 'Send message' on the profile of users, maybe
sending a message to the person who uploaded the video will give you a
useful response.



I'm a Tube-tard so that never crossed my mind. Will give it a go.

\d
  

please let us know when you find more information about the project.
thanks,
Stef Mientki
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