The General Data PlugIn

While XDB2 is still in alpha stage, the main part is almost complete and so i'm starting to focus on the PlugIns. The idea behind this project is to provide an easy but still very specialized way to manage data. Today there are way to many bloated applications that have hundreds of unused features that just confuse you and suck your computer's resources away like a blackhole, or you have a lot of different applications that do one job with the same unpleasant result.

This is where PlugIns are meant to make the difference. If i want to simply manage a list of TV Series and Music Albums i don't need an application that does more, or i could want to handle many more and PlugIns give the possibility to do so. PlugIns can manage data in a specialized way through a unique and intuitive interface.

Unfortunaly there is one major issue.
If PlugIns manage data in a very specialized way, then hundreds would NOT be enough to manage all kinds of data that could possibly be thought of.

The solution to this issue is the first PlugIn that i will work on, the General Data PlugIn.
It will allow the user to select what kind of data his table should contain and how each entry in the table should be visualized. It will be able to create and read any table containing any kind of data. These are two "work in progress" screenshots:

(1. Creating a new Table using the G.D. PlugIn) (2. Setting up the data to be stored in the Table)

Currently i'm working to streamline the process of customizing the table layout (screenshot #2).
I'm also looking for a good concept for a user customized interface for each table. I'm experimenting with some ideas that include a Drag & Drop editor that could allow the user to create the interface for the table with a few clicks. On the right is a concept screenshot that shows how such a Drag & Drop editor could look like. The General Data PlugIn will give the user an easy yet powerful way to store any kind of custom data that no PlugIn can handle.