Will Bitcoin QT ever look more "pretty"?

[kittycatbtc]

Bitcoin QT looks so basic, there's nothing you can do there. Other wallets have very nice layours (like NXT).
Will the official dev team ever develop QT to look nice or a secondary wallet that looks better, with more content etc?

[1Referee]

Bitcoin QT looks so basic, there's nothing you can do there. Other wallets have very nice layours (like NXT).
Will the official dev team ever develop QT to look nice or a secondary wallet that looks better, with more content etc?

I'm sure they will at a certain time, but don't expect anything fancy this year.

[Meuh6879]

No.

bitcoin-core must run on low (very low) and old computer ... like netbook 

[BitCoinDream]

Bitcoin QT looks so basic, there's nothing you can do there. Other wallets have very nice layours (like NXT).
Will the official dev team ever develop QT to look nice or a secondary wallet that looks better, with more content etc?

I would like to stay it as a robust secure software, rather than a fancy fragile one.

[micaman]

It's OpenSource!
You can build your own QT with all the (supported) features you want.

[franky1]

It's OpenSource!
You can build your own QT with all the (supported) features you want.

cha ching.. this guy gets it

you can also if you only know VB.NET or other languages, make your own GUI that simply API calls the bitcoin deamon..

.. well thats what i did

[Brooker]

Just use one of the other alternative wallets which look much 'prettier' and don't have to download the entire blockchain. I'm sure wallets will get slicker and add more features in the future too but bitcoin qt is just a basic one with bare bones features.

[dadugan]

It's OpenSource!
You can build your own QT with all the (supported) features you want.

cha ching.. this guy gets it

you can also if you only know VB.NET or other languages, make your own GUI that simply API calls the bitcoin deamon..

.. well thats what i did

How about sharing it? That is make your GUI open source.

[kittycatbtc]

No.

bitcoin-core must run on low (very low) and old computer ... like netbook 

Are you serious? Bitcoin core is unoperative unless you have a shit ton of ram.

[InwardContour]

Someone should do a sort of skin changer and upload a skin database on a website where people can contribute with their creativity

[franky1]

Someone should do a sort of skin changer and upload a skin database on a website where people can contribute with their creativity

why dont you go on github and ask them to simply add a image box to the background of the GUI and have it link to a certain filename in the bitcoin directory.

thats like 5 lines of code at most.

then people can just put whatever image they want and name it as that filename.

then people can be creative and make their own skins to fit around the buttons and textboxes.. (template outline)

i use to do that crap a decade ago as the simplest solution to glamorising programs i made

[kittycatbtc]

It's OpenSource!
You can build your own QT with all the (supported) features you want.

cha ching.. this guy gets it

you can also if you only know VB.NET or other languages, make your own GUI that simply API calls the bitcoin deamon..

.. well thats what i did

Im not a coder and so will be the 99% of Bitcoin users in the future if you ever expect it to be mainstream, so not a valid answer.

[Hazir]

This is the wallet I am using and honestly I don't care about fancy looks. As long as it do its job. If you want  fancy looks you always can find another better looking wallet

[BitcoinMillionaire]

Yeah it looks pretty boring. More like some gray accounting software. It needs more bling-bling in my opinion. I think it should be golden, like the Bitcoins themselves. And a nice ka-shing sound when you receive a transmission. Maybe some rap-music in the background.

[franky1]

It's OpenSource!
You can build your own QT with all the (supported) features you want.

cha ching.. this guy gets it

you can also if you only know VB.NET or other languages, make your own GUI that simply API calls the bitcoin deamon..

.. well thats what i did

How about sharing it? That is make your GUI open source.

if you know VB.net this will start youoff, forgive me it was 2 years ago and i didnt keep the source. but the fun of coding is that you can do it your own way

this video will get you started (code stuff begins at 3:55)
http://youtu.be/r7V2vLK9rHc?t=3m50s

here is the bitcoin API calls
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls_list

and here is an example (ComandO is the command to send textbox1 to receive response)

Code:

Imports System
Imports System.Diagnostics

Dim myProcess As New Process()

sub function blah(CommandO)
myProcess.start("c:\wherever you put it\bitcoind.exe", CommandO) 

textbox1.text=myProcess.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd.ToString()
end sub

form1_load()
blah("getbalance")
end sub

now you just replace the command or use blah() in any button, whatever..

best i can do after 2 years and no spare time.. if your any good youll figure it out

but here is the main window i use daily

i have a button with a f which takes me into my advanced window where i can do more stuff and look at each individual address and stuff, but mainly the main window is all i need, (something small and simple) as you can tell, it too is boring

[shorena]

Are you serious? Bitcoin core is unoperative unless you have a shit ton of ram.

Yeah it eats ~600MB of ram and barely runs on that old dualcore machine with 2Gigs ram total.

/sarcasm.


Bitcoin core runs fine, even on old machines.

[joshraban76]

I am pretty sure in time they will do more to make it look more fancy however they are more than likely wanting to be sure that everything else is working correctly before venturing out on a better layout. I can not say that I blame them for waiting before they create a better layout as sometimes it's better to ensure the service is working first.

[azeteki]

As franky has noted; the -qt GUI can be recreated (completely, as far as I'm aware) without actually modifying core code.

You can write an interface that communicates with the RPC API and do pretty much anything.

My ncurses front-end is an example of this, though it doesn't have wallet functions (it is mostly for monitoring purposes).



We're in OSS land, here. If you want something, you can do it. And bitcoind makes it fairly easy; something I have immense respect for.

[Prez]

Mine always looks pretty

[saddambitcoin]

lol of course this comes from a user named "kittycatbtc"

no disrespect. i think devs are still working on a robust protocol rather than glossy gui...but it will come in time i'm sure.