Use a Terminal based and/or Graphical user interface

Currently silkaj is using dirty one-shot os.system("clear") then texttable libs to display charts.

It's not possible to sort lines and to keep open all this charts. It could also be possible to see evolving charts.

Silkaj could be a multiple user interface client. Silkaj would stay a CLI client. Then, I would preferably go first for a console/TUI client using textual/blessed, then a GUI client using PyGObject/GTK4.

We could have three modes with different features depending on the interface:

• silkaj-cli
• silkaj-console/tui
• silkaj-gtk/gui

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TUI

• Set console interface with Textual console/TUI ... (#440)

Curses libraries

All in Debian

• blessed − doc
• urwid
• curtisies
• terminaltables
• npyscreen − Blog article
• picotui
• asciimatics
• bitcoind-ncurses2

Curses

To do so, I suggest to use curses lib. We could takes example and use curses lib used on XMPP console client Poezio.

• (es) Prez

Inspiration

• Ranger
• Poezio

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GTK/PyGObject

• https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• https://rafaelmardojai.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/pygobject-guide/gtk4.html
• https://www.bassi.io/articles/2022/12/02/on-pygobject/
• https://www.gtk.org/
• Could also be a solution, but it would need lots of work.
• Could be a nice way to have it on the Librem 5/PinePhone
• Modern Python applications which uses Python3/GTK+3: Lollypop. Pitivi, (Gajim, Deluge).

GTK3+

• pgi API
• Python GTK3 Tutorial

GTK4

• Tutorial
• The Simplicity of Making Librem 5 Apps
• https://github.com/ToshioCP/Gobject-tutorial
• https://github.com/ToshioCP/Gtk4-tutorial
• https://bestofcpp.com/repo/ToshioCP-Gtk4-tutorial
• http://ssalewski.de/gtkprogramming.html
• https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/getting_started.html

Slint

• https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/
• https://slint.dev/
• v1.5.0 adds Python API support
• Rust based
• Multiple platforms native: web, Android, …

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GUI Desktop frameworks

• https://www.analyticsindiamag.com/8-python-gui-frameworks-for-developers/

Terminal not based on Ncurses (in Debian)

• python-prompt-toolkit

Web framework

• Flask: click-web click module, would generate forms from CLI commands and options
• Sanic

Web/Multi-platform/Android

• GUY : un module python3 pour créer des GUI multiplateforme (android aussi!)
• wuy, guy
• Kivy
• BeeWare:
  • Toga, in alpha stage, based on GTK+3, https://toga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  • Article
• Using Python for Mobile Development: Kivy vs BeeWare

GUI from the CLI

• Gooey

Aioconsole

• https://github.com/vxgmichel/aioconsole This is an async/await Python console