Hi, On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 09:34:15PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > X-Flags: 0000 > From: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> > To: GDA <gnome-db-list gnome org> > Subject: [gnome-db]GUADEC decisions > > Hi all! > > * user interface: currently, it is a crap, very confusing, and not very > user-friendly. Things to do are to use wizards for configuration stuff, > add keybindings, and rework some of the widgets. I would be very > grateful to people suggesting UI stuff, even what would be great is to > provide me with a .glade file, which is very easy to do. But well, just > suggestions would also be welcomed :-) I think the following things would be great - Binding keys to user-definable default xml/sql queries - gda-source im-/export (using xml config files or others, optinonally w/wo password) - Predefinable reports using the report engine Perhaps, also extensions like a batching module would be great, but its beyond the basic which have to be implemented first, of course. ;-) What i think of is a kind of scripting possibility for the frontend, which allows automated issuing queries to the servers, generating reports, calling external gnome/gnome-db modules through CORBA, etc. The "scripts" could be stored in xml-files and possibly even distributed through CORBA-components. This would make gnome-db a powerful tool. > * report engine: I've been talking with some XML guys (Joaquin, Ismael), > and I've finally understood what XSLT is, and I now know it is the way > to go. So, the report engine would only generate XSLT, and, as Joaquin > suggested, we could have a "converter" to be compatible with > gnome-print, so that the XSLT returned by the engine can be easily > accessed and used by clients. > Thus, the clients would be the responsible for generating output in > other formats (PDF, PS, etc). > > so, how does it sound? I think at least ps and xml output should be implemented, so the gnome-db frontend can print results of queries using the report-engine. Or is this intented for a separate report-engine? I don't know XSLT, so i don't know how easy conversion would be, though. ;-) Ciao, Holger
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