Re^2: slightly OT "Desktop Database" options

The GUI requirement is barebones and simplistic. There needs to be a way for 'average joe/jane user' to add/edit/delete records without them having to know diddly squat about the database, or even what a database is. The idea is we need a simple 'grid view' style applet widget that can be searched, sorted, edited as brain-dead easily as opening up your email inbox on hotmail or outlook.

This is a simple scenario like 'manage my cd collection'. No user login, concurrency or admin-console requirements... very barebones, single user desktop type stuff.

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Re^3: slightly OT "Desktop Database" options by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Oct 06, 2004 at 19:08 UTC
Use Access. That's what it was designed to do. Otherwise, use a spreadsheet. If you don't want fancy, then don't get fancy. Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing. Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid. Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence. Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.	[reply]
Re^3: slightly OT "Desktop Database" options by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2004 at 20:05 UTC
I'm with dragonchild on this one. Access seems to meet your requirements, except for the fact that it isn't open source. If it just needs to be bare-bones simple, and Access will do everything you describe, why do you care if it is open source?	[reply]