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Can't upload project to PPA using Quickly

I can't get Quickly to upload my project into my PPA. I've set up my PGP key and used it so sign the code of conduct, and the PPA exists. I don't know what other usefull information I can supply. ...
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Data files for Quickly apps

My Quickly app requires data files to store settings, configuration and etc. How would I do this inside the app folder. Keep in mind that I will need to read and write to these files while the app ...
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How to get Yelp to open the docs?

quickly tutorial Result: An empty Yelp window with the XML file opened in gedit. yelp /usr/share/quickly/templates/ubuntu-application/help/tutorial.xml --> Exactly the same problem. Worked fine a ...
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Strangely quickly runs but debugger crashes with no exception

Firstly, strangely quickly run on my app runs fine and i believe i have made no changes to the source since quickly debug was working (proclaiming it's not user error is distasteful, I know!). winpdb ...
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Can't show preferences dialog

I'm having some trouble with Python, again. I created a project using Quickly, and it created a preferences dialog for me. I am now trying to build up the preferences dialog, but I always get some ...
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Quickly Project System-Notifications dont work ("import pynotify" fails)

If i create a quickly-project with the following command in terminal: quickly create ubuntu-application helloworld and then add in the HelloworldWindow.py the following lines, import sys import ...
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Why does "quickly share --ppa share" abort with a "can't create" error?

I can not figure out what I am doing wrong. The package builds ok with quickly package, I could submit it, but I can not update my ppa. Here is what I got: desgua@desguai7:~/quickly/sbk$ quickly ...
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Why is my Quickly app full of fail? [duplicate]

I tried to use quickly on Ubuntu 12.04 to create an application, but it does not behave as described in that linked page. I don't get a popup when creating the application (see error below). % ...
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Quickly and Python Twisted

I am creating a Quickly application that makes use of Python Twisted. When the user launches a window, I want to start the Twisted server I wrote. However, when I do this, it freezes the GUI, because ...
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"quickly submitubuntu" doesn't install app in /opt directory

According to the Ubuntu App Showdown Rules (http://developer.ubuntu.com/showdown/rules/), "Quickly installs your app to /opt for you when you run quickly submitubuntu." However there's nothing in the /...
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Quickly ubuntu-application + indicator template don't work

I've started to work with quickly and python (because I wanted to have some GTk3 integration and create and appindicator), and so I create the projecto like this : quickly create ubuntu-application ...
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How can I add new window to my project in using quickly?

I'm new to glade and python. But the code generated by quickly when making my first app is so much confused for me to understand. I don't know where should I add the code to initialized my new ...
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Build failed with the command : quickly submitubuntu

We try to submit our application for the ubuntushowdown contest, but when we do the command : quickly submitubuntu, the application is not submitted, we have errors such as "build failed". We spend ...
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off-topic: How can I update "Quickly" using a PPA or similar in the Source file? [closed]

I am running an ubuntu derivative that runs a bit behind in the updates. The version I'm running ~$ quickly --version Quickly 11.10 Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.7.2 Python standard ...
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How do I force only one instance of my application?

I am developing a program using quickly. I am using an indicator which can hide/show the main window. But when I launch the application from the launcher it starts a new instance of that application (...
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How do I add/create a <source.changes> file?

I have created a package with Quickly and also I have uploaded it to a branch on launchpad, but how can I create a PPA for that program and upload to it? I'm really new to these stuff, I just learned ...
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Quickly User Dialog error

I think there is an error in the Quickly tutorial. In the User Dialog section, the tutorial instructs users to enter: title = saver.title_text in the save dialog method. This gives some error which is ...
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Make new instance of main window, python gtk

I am fairly new to python and gtk and I am writing an app for the Ubuntu App Showdown using Quickly. I want to make a new instance of the main window when the user clicks on 'New'. I have the button ...
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How do I stop a container box from expanding horizontally in Glade?

Currently, when my button's label gets more characters, its container boxes resize horizontally, and push away the other containers next to it. I don't want this behaviour. How do I give my boxes a ...
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How can I relocate the default quickly directory?

I don't want quickly to create applications in my home folder by default. Instead I want them to be in ~/Projects. Is there a way to do this?
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What are the different application directories in a quickly ubuntu-application template for?

When you create a new ubuntu-application with quickly you will notice that it creates a directory structure like this: MyApp/ setup.py bin/ help/ tests/ setup.py MyApp/ MyApp_lib/ What are each one ...
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How to use Sublime Text 2 as Quickly default editor?

I used this answer to change the editor used with quickly and it worked, however now,when I type quickly edit the command line stays on the open and does not allow me to enter other commands as long ...
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In development based on Quickly, why do codes start with "from gi.repository import Gtk"?

I am developing apps in Quickly. Default codes start with from gi.repository import Gtk. Why is it so and not simply import gtk for example? The point is, a lot of tutorials, documentation and forums ...
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How do I add spellcheck to a TextView object in my Quickly app?

Specifically for a Quickly app, using Gtk3: How do you import GtkSpell in python? How do you set it up to spell-check a TextView object? (If there's an alternative to GtkSpell, do tell.)
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GTK3 tabs with big icons

I want to implement something similar to the ubuntu software center's tabs. What widget is it? Any working example in python where I could take a look? Is this widget available in Glade? Thanks in ...
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How do I get images to appear on buttons in Glade Designer?

Not sure if this is a bug or just a very annoying feature, but I can't get an image to appear on any of my buttons in Glade Designer. Is there some property I need to change in order to force it to ...
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How to use GDK with Quickly

I trying to use the library gdk for scale down an image and apply it to a GdkImage. This is the code pixbuf = Gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(fileName) pixbuf = pixbuf.scale_simple(100, 100, Gdk....
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How do I include basic image editing in my python application?

I am making an application for the Ubuntu App Showdown and I want to include basic image editing like adding black and white, grey effects etc to the image. But I don't know how to do that. I have ...
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Quickly won't package my app (11.10) [closed]

As the title suggests, I haven't been able to package my app with Quickly on Ubuntu 11.10. Here's the output phoenix87@nestofheliopolis:~/Programming/python/gtumbler$ quickly package ........ -------...
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Error while running Quickly

Getting an error while running quickly app: Creating project directory sata Creating bzr repository and committing Launching your newly created project! (sata:2701): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings ...
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Quickly package command fails

I get an error when trying to package my quickly application: $ quickly package ........Ubuntu packaging created in debian/ ............An error has occurred during package building ERROR: package ...
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Why does creating a new tab give me 'TypeError: Expected Gtk.Widget, but got GObjectMeta'?

def on_btn_new_subject_activate(self, widget): self.subjects.append_page(Gtk.TextView(), "Testing") I am trying to create a new tab on a text area but I whenever the signal is called by the event ...
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Quickly Application making it run on startup

I have a PyGtk application that I made using Quickly, and I would like to have it run on startup when installed. How would I go about doing this? I'm not sure if sticking the .desktop file in ~/....
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How to add windows to an ubuntu-application with Quickly? [duplicate]

I'm doing a little app with Quickly and I want to add some windows with different widgets, but the ubuntu-application template just have the options to add a dialog, an indicator, a help-guide and a ...
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How to implement event changed event on Entity object Python/Quickly

I start to develop a test application to experiment button clicks, window's title change and other widgets use. on button objects it's easy to make event "clicked" to work, in to window class and ...
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How to add vte terminal widget in GTK3?

I'm trying to add vte widget in my application and the examples I've found use .fork_command() to execute a command in that widget. But according to http://developer.gnome.org/vte/0.26/VteTerminal....
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How to add dependencies to a Quickly generated .deb installer? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Create a quickly app with build dependencies I need extra packages for my app (done with Quickly). When I run: quickly package How can I set them? Thanks in advance!
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Display and edit text and images in a quickly app

I need to be able to display images and text (images resizable and text editable). I was thinking maybe a HTML type thing could do this. For a really bad example like how a word processor works. ...
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How to add widgets on GUI developed with Glade?

I am using Quickly and Glade for the first time. I want to add certain widgets such as label and buttons on viewport via python code. Is it possible?
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How to use quickly with c++

I wanted to know that how can i create application using c++ with quickly. Recently i wanted to use pyside with it so i deleted all the files in the main folder expect init.py And it works I wanted to ...
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Invalid syntax error when following "Creating your first ubuntu app" video

$ quickly run Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/mybrowser", line 32, in <module> import mybrowser File "/home/michael/mybrowser/mybrowser/__init__.py", line 14, in <module&...
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How can I store variable changed by user?

I'm working on simple application for Ubuntu App Showdown. I'm relatively new to programming (started learning Python last week), so maybe this question sounds stupid. Anyway, lets say there's a ...
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Broken Debian package with Quickly due to UnicodeDecodeError

I created a test application with Quickly. When I used quickly package, I get this warning: Ubuntu packaging created in debian/ ...........................................................................
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Opening files with quickly's PyGTK

I have already added the listeners and etc, but I can't get the actual open dialog code to work. I think it is something to do with the difference between gtk and Gtk but I literally just started ...
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Teeview-Binding to CouchDB not working with quickly (PyGtk + Glade)

For the Ubuntu App Developer Showdown I need to know some basics about quickly. One really important thing is to know how the Treeview-Binding works with CouchDB. I did the Tutorial1 (rickspencer3.com/...
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Open Dialog, created with quickly does not work

I tried to open a dialog like David Planella describs here (and quickly help add): Open Custom Dialog Windows (PyGTK + Quickly) But this don't works for me. I always get the same Error-Message if I ...
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How do I access the preferences from my main dialog window? Also how do I add a new preference?

class PreferencesCalorieBurnerDialog(PreferencesDialog): __gtype_name__ = "PreferencesCalorieBurnerDialog" def finish_initializing(self, builder): # pylint: disable=E1002 """Set ...
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Is there a recommended DB to work with Quickly?

CouchDB used to be the recommended DB to work with Quickly until 12.04, when it was dropped out. Now, I want to know if there is another DB recommended to replace CouchDB that works nicely with ...
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Glade GTK entry get text

Sorry for a newbie question but I could not figure out how to print a text which a user enter in a GTKEntry field after he press a button. I design my app with glade, a simple TextEntry Field and a ...
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Glade alternative for Quickly?

Is there? I am not getting on with Glade one bit. Any other ones out there that are better to use? Thing I dont like about Glade is when I make a mistake and I save I cannot undo along with several ...
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