The dog is actually sad because Jojatekok has decided to stop working on MoneroX, and MoneroX doesn't work properly with the low-memory, database-supporting master branch of the Monero daemon.
See here for more info on him moving on: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12287483
I thought the dog was sad because the question keeps getting asked without an inkling of what should be the priority of a technology that's aim is end user functionality rather than a speculative dog and pony show, but the jojatekok news makes me sad. Has anyone picked up the project yet?
I think this is good news, because Monero core devs did emphasize that GUI is not a priority at all. New low-memory database implementation of console client is the priority. So I hope jojatekok will join to Monero core devs to help them in order to write a code or to make quality assistance.
I can add, I am completely happy with current console client, except it's HUGE memory eating. For example I can't install current Monero client on a VPS with 1GB virtual memory. THIS is the problem, not GIU absence...
Compile from github master. It is fairly stable (unstable work is going to the development branch now) and only needs about 50 MB of RAM