There is QT Creator a similar thing to visual basic. You could definitely make the wallet look like those screen shots using it.
Here's a link to a program written in QT. (just like the darkcoin wallet)
https://amarok.kde.org/en/screenshotsEdit Edit: Here is the showcase for QT developed apps/gui's
http://showroom.qt-project.org/Edit: Mmmm donuts...
QT4 is going to struggle slightly with the some bits of the wallet design as it stands as posted above, but you could get pretty close. And QT designer is only like Visual Basic in that it produces truly horrible code - although actually it just produces XML, which when run through your UIC script produces truly horrible code.
It's not the QT part that's difficult though, it's the C++ re-write of the existing wallet, which is going to be fairly major and needs someone pretty experienced.
I'm actually hoping Evan and the team get stuck into Electrum-DRK first, it fits better with the whole MN system.
I am an expert in creating Adobe Air/Actionscript Apps (also as standalone EXE/app that don't need to download any plugin) for windows and mac. (unfortunately not for linux (anymore) although there is a deprecated linux version for air available that is not being developped anymore:
http://helpx.adobe.com/air/kb/install-air-2-64-bit.html).
I have 10 years experience.
What I could do (although I don't know if this is reasonable security wise) is to create an app that communicates with the darkcoind (darkcoind runs in the background as service).
So basically it will be like a frontend that when started, looks if the darkcoind is active, and if not starts it, and then makes API calls to it, and listens.
That's why I asked for a client API call list yesterday:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg8933337#msg8933337I have already done a few experiments with different coins over the past 2 years, namely namecoin.
If the Darkcoin GUI is ready, I could create something like this pretty fast, I will probably not need more than a full weeks work for that. (40-50 hours)
Should I give it a try?
The awesome thing about that would be that I don't need to touch/change the darkcoind at all. It would do all darkcoin related things as it already does so well.
So we don't have to debug two versions of the darkcoin software, just the darkcoind and the frontend separately.