quickdesktop is high level gtk based library to create desktop applications. With few configurations and simple plugin files in text format, it is possible to create a desktop application.

A typical desktop application consists of a tool frame with menubar and/or commandbar with a working space below. Typical user input components like string/numeric input , boolean, radio, dropbox, file choosing etc. are required.

quickdesktop supports creation of menus/commandbar and a customizable toolframe using plugin files. These plugin files are in human readable format. It also supports typical user interface creation using various parameters to control them. Following philosophy used by glade, it is possible to create automated UI creation. But configuration files generated by glade for UI creation are xml files. This becomes cumbersome to manage by humans. quickdesktop consists of quickui component which makes the above mentioned process through human readable file format.

To create a desktop application using quickdesktop you need to download quickdesktop library. Unzip it and install it.

tar -xvzf Quickdesktop-1.0.tar.gz cd Quickdesktop-1.0 sudo python setup.py install

Now you are ready to use quickdesktop library to create a desktop tool.

to create a new desktop tool with name sample run following command.

$qdesktop.py create sample Creating folder structure Creating plugins Creating configurations Creating resources

in current working directory you will see a new folder called "sample" just browse through it. you will see following structure.

• sample
  • config
  • plugins
  • resources sample

here + signs indicate that they are folders. you can run this executable called sample. Your sample desktop is up!

For further progress wait for a tutorial! Or if you are smart, just go through plugins directory and you might understand how to proceed further.