Python ManaTools builds on the original Perl-based ManaTools idea, keeping the same goal of a shared toolkit and consistent UX while moving to Python to match systemd and D-Bus APIs. We are grateful to libyui for the foundation it provided, but this project now ships its own AUI layer and keeps evolving independently. Today it focuses on a backend-agnostic UI abstraction for GTK, Qt, and ncurses, plus the services and helpers needed by ManaTools.
See the AUI API documentation for details: manatools AUI API.
- dbus-python — D-Bus bindings used by
manatools.services - PyYAML — YAML configuration file support (
manatools.config) - python-gettext — internationalisation helpers
- PyGObject >= 3.42 (
gi) — Python GObject introspection bindings - GTK 4 — the GTK 4 toolkit libraries (
gtk4) - GdkPixbuf 2 — image loading for icons (
gdk-pixbuf2) - pycairo — Cairo drawing context used by GTK widgets (
python3-cairo)
- PySide6 >= 6.5.0 — Qt 6 Python bindings
- curses — included in the Python standard library (no extra install needed)
pip install python-manatools
Or from sources:
poetry install