Best GUI for small-scale accounting app?

[Paul Rubin]

Ed Leafe <ed at leafe.com> writes:
> 	Oh, geez. After months of us getting skewered for releasing
> Dabo under GPL, with everyone saying that they wouldn't even *look* at
> it for fear of 'infecting' all of their code, we change the license to
> the MIT license, and now the complaint is that Microsoft is going to
> sell the code!

Well, those are commercial developers who are afraid of the GPL.  If
they want to require people to pay to use the code they release, then
they, just like Microsoft, should also expect to pay the developers of
the components they use.  If I were you I would have stood firm on the
GPL, unless they offered you funding.

> 	Ever get that feeling that you can't win?  ;-)

I don't see how you lose with the GPL, unless you count missing out on
the exciting opportunity to be an unpaid employee of someone else's
corporation, without even getting back improvements made to your code.

> > I hope Dabo can read the xml files Glade generates, so you have a gui
> > builder that's already deployed.
> 
> 	That's definitely part of the development plan. But after
> looking at Glade and several other designers, our conclusion is that
> they all lack something: either flexibility, ease of use, or something
> else. Sizers were probably the item that was the most difficult thing
> to handle well. The best designer for sizers we found was Qt
> Designer. We'd like to make our designer as visually clear as that one.

I'm not sure what sizers are, but why not just add them to Glade?

> 	Also, Dabo is not just a UI toolkit: it's a full 3-tier
> application framework. Our major design goal is to integrate the
> database connections defined into the UI designer, so that you can
> drag and drop fields from the tables in the connection onto the design
> surface, and create data-bound controls in one step.

Ehhh, sounds a little too much like javabeans :).