Alle 12:43, domenica 7 marzo 2004, Dru ha scritto: Please, allow me to bring some contribution to this thread.
> Overall vision: Should not you know them already, have a look at: Rekall, a clone of MS Access (runs on Qt): www.totalrekall.co.uk www.rekallrevealed.org www.thekompany.com GNUccess, another clone of MS Access (alpha): gnuccess.sourceforge.net GNU Enterprise: www.gnuenterprise.org Mozilla SQL native interface: www.mozilla.org XULMaker, a Visual GUI builder for Mozilla/XUL: www.mozdev.org They can be a source of inspiration and, maybe, the people working on these project could be willing to cooperate with you. > Forms creation. > > I think we all seem pretty confident in glade here. thats solved. Glade is fantastic. I vote for it. As an alternative, have a look at Mozilla, XUL e XULMaker. The way they create and manage the program GUI could bring to a "GUI Building/Management Standard" in the future. It could be nice to be there at that moment. > Reporting > Report Designer. Have a look at the report designer of Rekall for inspiration. I vote for not wasting time in creating a specific Report Designer and Report Engine. Just make your data available to OpenOffice, AbiWord and KOffice and let them do the job. Wordprocessors and Spreadsheets are well-known by end-users and can make a great job on reporting. > None of have anything here (expect gnue). Its needed. I was thinking > orginally using openoffice or abiword to design reports but i really > havn't started looking at this at any detail. Any suggestions on how we > are going to achive this? Does this sound feasible? OpenOffice: can exchange data via UNO (its own interface) and has a large part of what you would need. It is much more mature than other systems, as long as I can see. I vote for OpenOffice. AbiWord: I have never seen it working on my machines, so.... :-( KOffice: can exchange data via DCOP and other protocols. It has many interesting features that you can use. Not available on Windows, as long as I know. > Database Administration/creation. > > This should be handled by mergeant. Have a look at DBDesigner 4, as well. Its is quite MySQL-oriented and has a lot of small GUI problems but it is interesting. Those DBD4 people could be intersted in your getting involved in your project. Rekall can be another source of inspiration. Have a look at Rekall's "copiers". > The Politics. There are at least 4 or 5 different projects around dealing with the development of a RAD toolkit for the development of data-centric applications. I cannot keep myself for suggesting all the involved people to concentrate their efforts on a single, common project. See above for the addresses of the other projects. See you ------------------------ Alessandro Bottoni _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
