App Launcher for quick starting applications with conan
Project description
Conan App Launcher
Quick Overview
The goal of this project is to provide a frontend to start executables contained in packages of the package manager conan. It is intented to be used on Windows and Linux x64 platforms.
Features:
- configurable layout (tabs and applications) in GUI itself
- can also open files with their associated default program
- installs all referenced packages automatically
- automatic conan settings resolution for your platform
- compatible with a wide range of conan versions (from 1.19 onwards)
- integrated console for information an packages and config file
- installable with pip
How to install?
Prequisites on Linux
Qt for Python must be installed with the native package manager, like:
sudo apt install python3-pyqt5
Ubuntu 16.04 is not supported duw to its native Python 3.5.
With pip from Pypi
pip install conan-app-launcher
From source
After checkout use the command:
pip install .
Running
Execute conan_app_launcher
, if the Python "scripts" folder is on your system path, or look it up manually in the site-packages folder.
Main dependencies
- PyQt5 >= 5.13.0
- conan >= 1.19.4
Config File layout
It is not needed to edit this by hand, since (almost) every option is available in the GUI. The config file uses the following exemplary schema:
{
"version": "0.3.0",
"tabs": [
{
"name": "Basics",
"apps": [
{
"name": "App1 with spaces",
"conan_ref": "app1/0.1.0@user1/stable", // full conan reference
"package_id": "app1/0.1.0@user1/stable" // DEPRECATED - will converted to conan_ref automatically
"executable": "bin/app1", // relative to conan "package folder" - can also be a file to open
"icon": "MyIcon.png" // relative to this config file,
"console_application": true, // start console application in extra window
"args": "--version" // args to start the application with
},
{
"name": "App2",
"conan_ref": "app2/0.2.0@user2/testing",
"executable": "bin/app2", // forward slashes are preferred
"icon": "C:\\CustomIcon.ico" // but escaped backslashes also work
}
]
},
{
"name": "Extra",
"apps": [
{
"name": "App3",
"conan_ref": "app3/0.3.0@user3/stable",
"console_application": true, // starts in a new console window
"executable": "bin/app3", // extension (.exe) can be ommited for windows
// Icon can be ommitted, then it will try on Windows to use the applications own icon
}
]
}
]
}
Toolchain
This project uses Python with Qt as a frontend using the PyQt integration. The IDE integration is done for VsCode.
Licenses of used libraries and code
- Using source code of modified ExtractIcon class from https://github.com/firodj/extract-icon-py, Copyright(c) 2015-2016 Fadhil Mandaga, MIT license
- Using icons by https://icons8.com, Universal Multimedia Licensing Agreement for Icons8, https://icons8.com/vue-static/landings/pricing/icons8-license.pdf
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