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 is.
Status: starting from 0.7.x series penGUI, is again a little wild, but usable and I recommend it, expecially for new users.
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. There is not yet a package for Arch, Manjaro and derivatives but you can directly use the pengui-0-7-x.bin which is an executable.
You can download penGUI and install it with dpkg -i pengui-0.7.x.deb and start from the terminal giving: pengui as normal user or from the the usual desktop link.
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.
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, gnome-terminal work too, but x-term and konsole not. We must understand why.
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-pip python3-venv
For pyside6 to work properly, I also installed:
sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0
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.
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 2.1.5 on python 3.11.2. To create bin, we need to install too:
sudo apt install ccache patchelf
To create Debian packages we need to install fpm.
First install ruby sudo apt install ruby, then with gem, install fpm.