Cross platform application development and distribution

Mr. Stani Michiels, Ms. Nadia Alramli
Friday February 19th, 2:55pm @ Centennial II.
PyCon 2010 Atlanta

Table of Contents

• Cross-Platform Development
  • Portable Directory Structure
  • pythonw
  • Locating
    • Font Files
    • Executables
    • Desktop Directory
  • Tempfiles
  • System Thumbnail Cache
    • Windows
    • Mac OS X
    • Linux
  • Platform Specific Tools or Libraries for Desktop Integration
    • Windows
    • Linux
  • Processing Filenames
    • Pitfalls
    • Format
  • Python, Batteries Included
  • Opening Files with the Default Application
  • Creating Shortcuts
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac OS X
  • Adding Your Application to the Start Menu
    • Linux
    • Windows
  • Associating System Actions with File Types
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
• Cross-Platform GUI Development
  • Human Interface Guidelines
  • Sensitive User Interface Differences
    • Document Interface
    • Different Widget Behavior
    • Linux Desktop Environments
  • System Colors
  • Icons
    • Stock Icons
    • License
    • Avoid Crippled Looking Icons
    • Resources
  • Menu bars
    • References and Guidelines
    • Mac OS X Differences
    • Layout
    • Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Menus in wxPython
  • Notifications
  • Events
  • wxPython
    • Resources
    • Clipboard
    • Layout
    • Debugging
    • Sensitive Issues with Mac OS X
    • Miscellaneous
    • Known Limitations
  • Web GUI
    • Distribute as Desktop Application
    • System Interaction
    • Interesting Projects
    • Disadvantages
• Application Distribution
  • Scope
  • Freezing
    • Windows: py2exe
      • Usage Example
      • Under the Hood
      • Locating Your Executable Path
      • Missing DLLs
      • Distributing Your Application
    • Mac OS X: py2app
      • Usage Example
      • Under the Hood
      • Making Your Application a Drop Target for Files (Droplet)
      • Customizing Application Properties
      • Distributing Your application
    • Common Issues with Frozen Applications
    • GUI2EXE
  • Linux
    • Good Practices
    • Debian
      • Where to Start
      • Useful Tools
      • Distributing on Ubuntu
    • RPM-based Linux Distributions
      • RPM Format
      • Policies
      • Build Services
    • Create Your Own MIME Type