Thank your for the reply Michal.<br><br>You made yourself clear about *code* projects.<br><br>I can say I'm not an advanced PMA user, but everything I wanted to do in my database, I was able to find links easily, except user privileges vs. databases. I believe that's the basic concept of good usability. But you're right, excellent is not the best adjective for it.<br>
<br>thomas.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Michal Čihař <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michal@cihar.com">michal@cihar.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi<br>
<br>
Dne Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:42:25 -0300<br>
Thomas de Lima <<a href="mailto:tfl3000@gmail.com">tfl3000@gmail.com</a>> napsal(a):<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> My name is Thomas de Lima.<br>
> I'm a computer engineering student from Brazil. I want to discuss more the<br>
> idea of redesigning PMA, because I want to be sure I understood it<br>
> correctly.<br>
><br>
> Design is not only about changing color or shapes in the user interface, but<br>
> also about changing how the user interacts with the application, towards<br>
> improving usability. So, the "User interface cleanup" project needs to be<br>
> codeveloped with the AJAX team. Is that right?<br>
><br>
> I read an email from our indian colleague Anirvana Mishra, excited about<br>
> ajaxifying PMA. But then Michal answered that he should pick one specific<br>
> area to improve, cause there's too much functionality in PMA.<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, you can not convert everything to AJAX during summer, so you need<br>
to choose some area.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Well, as a<br>
> database manager, the PMA should be lightweight and "usable". For example,<br>
> it takes a great deal of HTML download and clicks to find and edit someone's<br>
> data in a huge personnel table. AJAX could solve both problems by opening a<br>
> quickedit option on a browse table's row, which could be quickly found by an<br>
> AJAX filter on top. So I think one of the "User interface cleanup" project<br>
> goals should be study of which features need to be ajaxified or changed, or<br>
> whatever, not about picking, before a deeper study, an area to improve.<br>
<br>
</div>Please note that this is summer of *code*, so we can not accept studies,<br>
but only coding projects for GSoC. Generally it would be helpful, but<br>
is out of scope for GSoC (as well as other things we currently can not<br>
do ourselves because of time limits).<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> For this purpose I wish to apply as an GSoCer to improve the PMA user<br>
> interface, cause I frequently use it to manage my databases remotely. Of<br>
> course PMA's usability now is excellent, as everything is intuitively put in<br>
> place, but it feels soooo Web1.0, so static.<br>
<br>
</div>Well I would not tell that usability is excellent...<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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