Peter Harvey wrote:

> > What about coming up with applications that would use these interfaces
> > first ? ;)
>
> unixODBC already has two, Qt, based tools which could be brought into KDE in
> short order. ODBCConfig and the DataManager. Features from these two tools
> could be stripped out and put into the Control Center to allow ODBC to be
> easily configured in KDE.

Peter, this would be excellent.

> I think Lars may also be working on an ODBC based tool using Qt?
>
> I don't think any of these tools use odbc++ right now but I am sure that
> one... possibly two tools, based upon odbc++, could come out of this mix.
>
> I would suggest a;
>
> 1. a config tool in Control Center
> 2. a standalone data manager tool

In fact, that's the minimal visual client infrastructure requiered.
Since i'm working on a odbc++ based data manager tool, porting
2. onto odbc++ is not necessary. Both of these tools would allow
to test the odbc layer, which is a value in itself.

1. should clearly go into the Control Center. The data browser
should be added to kdebase also (kdeutil would also be a possible
place, but evtl. a little too far apart).

None of these need to be really sophisticated, they are plain driver
configuration/test tools.

> I would be willing to do the work to get ODBC config into the Control
> Center.

And I'm willing to support this effort.

Lars