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Re: [OT] An easier database

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On 2018-07-22 at 17:26, Leandro Noferini wrote:

> Ciao a tutti,
> 
> some friends with no computing skills need to catalog some objects
> with some features like components, costs and images. I gave a look
> to base in libreoffice suite but it looks too difficult to use and to
> mantain.
> 
> Is there something easier to use in linux/debian?
> 
> Something like filemaker of years ago.

Without knowing what their project actually looks like, just based on
that description, the thing that springs first to my mind is tellico.
It's a collection-management program, and while its predefined
"collection of what?" categories probably don't cover what your friends
need, it's allegedly extensible with custom collection-type definitions.

It's not strictly a database, but for a sufficiently simple type of
collection inventory it's good enough, and the UI is better than any
full database solution I've personally encountered. (Which, to be fair,
is not saying particularly much.)

Personally I'd be happier if there were an option to have it use a
database backend instead of an XML backend, but nothing I've used it for
has ever gotten big enough for that to become a concern.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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[OT] An easier database Leandro Noferini <lnoferin@cybervalley.org> - 2018-07-22 23:50 +0200
  Re: [OT] An easier database Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-07-23 00:20 +0200
  Re: [OT] An easier database The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-07-23 01:20 +0200
    Re: [OT] An easier database David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-23 20:10 +0200
      Re: [OT] An easier database Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-07-24 11:50 +0200
        Re: [OT] An easier database David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-24 18:00 +0200
          Re: [OT] An easier database Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-07-25 12:10 +0200
            Re: Re: [OT] An easier database Clive Standbridge <list-user@tgstandbridges.plus.com> - 2018-07-25 20:40 +0200
              Re: [OT] An easier database Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 21:10 +0200
                Re: [OT] An easier database Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-27 00:50 +0200
  Re: [OT] An easier database David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-24 06:20 +0200

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