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(I just want to reskin their application icon.)

I've used Thonny on the Raspberry Pi and find a few things frustrating about it. The only other Python IDE I've used is PyCharm on the Mac. I prefer PyCharm but where Thonny feels a little too bare-boned, PyCharm has too much going on for this newbie.

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It would be really cool if there was an editor where the UI started out incredibly bare and progressively added panels/buttons/etc as you used the corresponding python features for the first time.

Thonny actually does this on the basic raspberry pi install. It launches into a basic mode with big tablet like buttons and then you can click "Advanced Mode" and it goes to a more normal Windows experience with drop down windows and more options. On a personal note, i've found thonny to be the easiest way to get started with raspberry pi pico development. You just plug your pico in, fire up thonny and select the Micropython interpreter and you are now live coding on a rp2040 microcontroller. It can even download the fresh U2F image to your pico. It is a very good/simple user experience.

Pycharm does just about everything I've wanted, and keeps adding more features.

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