Draft: Add a "Minimalist" GUI
This MR adds a proof-of-concept "minimalist" GUI written in pyqt5
: it allows to control a Constellation with a minimum of buttons (and feedback for that matter).
This could e.g. be extended to act as a main tab in a more feature-complete GUI or as a simple operators (touch) interface.
While this could be merged as-is, I would like to add a couple more features:
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pre-fill the run identifier and sequence trailer from the Constellation (similarly to what @simonspa's GUI does) -
update the run id sequence number at an appropriate place (not the start of the run) -
move to pyQt6 -
add some hint of it to the documentation (somewhere)
Otherwise, the GUI is essentially functional.
Further ideas for improvement:
- test whether some actions, such as
Start
should be run in separate threads - provide more user feedback either in a dedicated small field (best) or the status line
- add a button/tab to view the loaded config file
- make it prettier!
- test in practice!
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Edited by Linus Ros