GUI

[boyska]

That's a really big one: writing a simple to use, almost-complete, secure GUI.
almost-complete means support for creating and opening. No esotheric options.
secure means that passwords are handled securely (pinentry)

Related: #59,#58

[jaromil]

I've checked out your qt branch. can you provide simple instructions on how to test it? I'm noob and python setup.py install did not work.... :S

[boyska]

mh, you need to install TWO things

cd src/pytomb
python2 setup.py install
cd ../qt
python2 setup.py install

this should work(tm)
There are pkgbuilds for archlinux testers, but I have not put them on the AUR because it's still unstable

btw, I'm coming back to tomb-open gui. Here we have a sketch of it http://www.twiddla.com/730346

[jaromil]

good you are back on it because this is the signature feature of the next release ;^)

[jaromil]

che menghia e' sto twidda non si vede una cippa (ce la posso disegnare una cippa, ma poi non la salva)

[boyska]

ahahaha, merda, non salva! evvabbe', torniamo ai metodi artigianali, buon vecchio testo!

[boyska]

https://pad.riseup.net/p/tomb-open_gui

[boyska]

a6ada0 is the first commit about gui that is merged in master. A lot of work is still to do, but now we have some code to base work on.
Commit message is:

Merge branch 'qtgui' basic ftrs for create/open

Create is quite good, but has no support for automatic-key-on-usb
Open is very raw, it only supports opening while explicitly choosing
where to get the key from

Python wrapper for tomb is in a distinct library, called "tomblib":
it currently supports tomb, basic undertaker, and parsing output
messages

We can now talk about specific gui features/behaviour, not anymore about an abstract project

[boyska]

I think that gui basic functionalities is now implemented.
If there are no major bugs, I'll close this issue.
If there are minor bugs (usability concerns, edge cases, etc) I'll rather add smaller, separate, issues.

[JoelMon]

Was the GUI merged with master? I can't seem to be able to find it and the INSTALLING.python mentions directories that are not in master...

Just noticed this post was ridiculously old. Any news on the GUI?

[jaromil]

The old pytomb gui is in extras/dismissed since it lacks functionality and is not being maintained.

The most reliable python wrapper is tomber by @reiven https://github.com/reiven/tomber but that has no GUI built on top yet.

Also there is Zulucrypt which is a GUI application supporting Tomb volumes among the others https://github.com/mhogomchungu/zuluCrypt/tree/master/plugins/tomb

[JoelMon]

I took a look at @reiven's project, looks good. I'm curious as to where his project is going, for example, which GUI framework will he use, Qt, GTK, or Tkinter?.

If Tkinter is used, sure it's not cute, but anyone with Python installed will be able to run it without having to install anything more (Tkinter is in Python's standard library). With ttk, which is included in Python3.4, Tkinter makes use of the system's theme and doesn't look bad at all. On the downside Tkinter is still missing support of some widgets like table view.

On what you said, would it be prudent to remove everything referring to the pytomb gui from ./extra to avoid confusion?

[jaromil]

AFAIK there are no current plans to build a GUI by anyone. I pointed out tomber because that is superseeding the old python wrapper. Maybe the old GUI could be ported to use tomber.

You are welcome to port that or build a new GUI.

[mandeep]

I started work on a Python GUI and wrapper for my own use. I'd love to here any feedback for those who are interested in using it. Currently, I'm uncertain if I like how the GUI asks for passwords, but I'm not sure there's an easier way. Project can be found here: https://github.com/mandeep/Mausoleum

[jaromil]

Awesome, will mention Mausoleum in the next Tomb release. How about a tray-icon thingie? I find those quite useful and the one I wrote years ago in C doesn't have lots of functionalities...

[mandeep]

@jaromil Thanks! I personally find tray icons to be annoying for GUI applications, however I could add a minimize to system tray option for those who prefer them. :)