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Linq++
A simple experimental implementation of a LINQ-like query language for C++ containers.
What users hate and what like about MSA 2k7
LoXiM
An experimental, an object oriented, semistructured Database Management System.
JotForm
web-based forms, compare to kexi web forms...
Quick Reference Guides to Popular Software
good idea for koffice apps
Kexi commit RSS
Customize here
Qt Property Browser
Qt Solution similar to our KoProperty2. But at the time of writing the former we did not have access to LGPLed Qt Property Browser.
Grantlee
Open Source string template system based on the Django template system from the Django project
uSQLite
A network wrapper for SQLite
Tanit
A set of Oracle to Kopi (a Java based framework) migration tools providing automatic translation of your Oracle PL/SQL, Forms and Reports applications.
TOra
An open-source multi-platform database management GUI that supports accessing most of the common database platforms in use, including Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, and ODBC.
SchemaSpy
A Java-based tool that analyzes the metadata of a schema in a database and generates a visual representation of it in a browser-displayable format.
MDB Tools
A library for accessing Microsoft Access .mdb files

Ideas

  • Enable searching actions by name like on Mac [1] [2] (or Plasma)
  • Menu ideas [3]:
    • Use custom widgets in menus, e.g. for color selection [4]
    • Spatial menus [5]
  • Pontoon - interesting approach to localization
  • Use Open Database License (ODbL) for example Kexi databases
  • Idea for Improvement of Tabbed Toolbars
  • Opera visual tabs
  • OData, the Open Data Protocol, is a Web protocol for querying and updating data. Even MSA can support it.
  • Finally add support for themes/color palettes like in MSO
  • Google Labs
    • Google Labs data wiki - wiki for structured data; our old idea was similar, to implement wiki-like database creator on top of KexiDB/Predicate
    • Google Labs sets - have you ever wanted to larger test set of items from give category? E.g. animals? Google sets uses the big database and categories to discover matching set and return its items. Can be useful as a plugin for Kexi.
  • Forms, Reports
    • Widget palette for Forms & Reports: Xcode does it similarly to our plans [6]
    • Idea: display more than one form/report on the same sheet [7]; having zoom enabled would help to navigate

Competition

Ribbon Designer
what's new in 'the other' GUI impl.
Theme Builder
It would be far easier to implement ODF replacement, since iunlike MSOOXML, ODF shares more styles with the same XML markup across apps. For Kexi Forms and Reports themes is a TODO as well.
Developing Access 2007 Solutions with Native C or C++
MSA 2k10 gets a kind of triggers
Netbeans GUI looks similar to Kexi 2 GUI in some aspects
Total Access Statistics 2010 for MSA 2010
Beyond generic databases...
Qtitan DataGrid
Ideas for grouping

Misc