Kivy-designer Is Not Working

I'm using a kivy over pycharm. I want to install a kivy designer to take advantage of Kivy's visual interface features. I installed the kivydesigner as written in the document with

Solution 1:

Note

The Kivy Designer is still a WIP (Work In Progress).

Python 3.x, Kivy, Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 LTS (64-bits) - Crash

Problem running Kivy Designer on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and it always crash.

Python 3.x, Kivy, Windows 10 (64-bits) - Working

No problem running in on Windows 10 64-bits using Python 3.x.

Solution for FileNotFoundError

There is a file by the name, xpopup_ru.mo in the folder, .kivy/garden/garden.xpopup. Rename xpopup_ru.mo to xpopup.mo, and it will solve the FileNotFoundError but Kivy Designer will still crash in the environment: Python 3.x, Kivy, Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 LTS (64-bits).

Python2.x, Kivy, Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 LTS (64-bits) - Working

No problem running Kivy Designer

Output

Solution 2:

I just moved the '__main__.py' to its parent folder and made below modifications after renaming the mo file to xpopup.mo:

import osos.environ['GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH'] = 'quiet'
data = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'designer\data')

you can simply run this .py file from your IDE to launch the Kivy Designer.