Tkinter, X-windows and ebay

[Paul Rubin]

"Bob Greschke" <bob at passcal.nmt.edu> writes:
> What I came up with was the user can just create a text file (a kind
> of a transaction log of what things were done to the copy of the
> database on his machine), then cut and paste that text into a window
> created on their machine by the main database program (using
> X-windows, ssh, etc.), then the main program can read the contents
> of that text field and update the main copy of the database.
> 
> It should work. :)

Yuck!  Why not use an http interface instead of the remote tkinter
interface?  Then the user would interact with your app through a web
browser, giving a familiar UI as well as giving that upload button
(which tells the browser to upload the file).