[Health-announce] New Native GNU Health GTK client

[Luis Falcon]

Dear community

Happy 2018 !!

I am happy to announce the native GNU Health GTK client for series 3.2 !

== The GNU Health GTK Client ==


The GTK client allows to connect to the GNU Health server from the
desktop.

Starting from GNU Health version 3.2, you can directly download the
gnuhealth client from GNU.org or pypi.

=== Installation ===

The GNU Health client is pip installable :

For a system-wide installation (you need to be root)

  # pip install gnuhealth-client

Alternatively, you can do a local installation :

  $ pip install --user gnuhealth-client


Fot the latest information about the GNU Health client on pypi visit :
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gnuhealth-client

Alternatively, you can also install it from source :

  $ wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/gnuhealth-client-latest.tar.gz
  
  
=== Technology ===

The GNU Health GTK client derives from the Tryton GTK client, with
specific features of GNU Health and healthcare sector.

GNU Health client series 3.2.x use GTK2+ and Python2 . This is a 
transition series for the upcoming 3.4, that will use GTK3+ and Python3

=== The default profile ===

The GNU Health client comes with a pre-defined profile, which points to
the GNU Health community demo server 

 Server : health.gnusolidario.org
 Port : 8000
 User : admin
 Passwd : gnusolidario


=== GNU Health Plugins ===

You can download GNU Health plugins for specific functionality.

For example:

* The GNU Health *Crypto* plugin to digitally sign documents using GNUPG
* The GNU Health *Camera* to use cameras and store them directly on the
  system (person registration, histological samples, etc..)

More information about the GNU Health plugins at :

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Plugins
  

=== The GNU Health client configuration file ===

The default configuration file resides in

$HOME/.config/gnuhealth/gnuhealth-client.conf

=== Using a custom greeter / banner ===

You can customize the login greeter banner to fit your institution.

In the section [client] include the banner param with the absolute path
of the png file.

Something like

 [client]
 banner = /home/yourlogin/myhospitalbanner.png

The default resolution of the banner is 500 x 128 pixels. Adjust yours
to approximately this size.

=== Development ===

The development of the GNU Health client will be done on GNU Savannah,
using the Mercurial repository.

Tasks, bugs and mailing lists will be on address@hidden , for
development.

General questions can be done on address@hidden mailing list.

=== Homepage ===

http://health.gnu.org


=== Documentation ===

The GNU Health GTK documentation will be at the corresponding
chapter in the GNU Health Wikibook

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health



Bests

-- 
Dr. Luis Falcon, M.D., BSc
President, GNU Solidario
GNU Health: Freedom and Equity in Healthcare
http://health.gnu.org
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