On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Michal Čihař michal@cihar.com wrote:
Hi all
I've looked a bit about problems people see with navigation frame and here is a little summary.
- Speed
The navigation panel is quite slow. By quickly looking at SQL queries it does, the database/table comments are quite big culprit here. Simply setting $cfg['ShowTooltip'] = false reduces load time a lot.
For not so big database (~25 tables), I get from 1.25s to 0.128s.
Are tooltips really worth of this? I suggest to drop this feature completely. In case there will be demand for something like that, lets load it on demand when user is hovering the table.
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/pull/646
- Pagination
Pagination together with tree can be quite annoying. I think we should increase limit for pagination to something like 250. It is still not too much to load (with disabled table comments, see above) and you can scroll in the navigation bar, what is much more convenient that clicking browse arrows.
+1 to the speed and pagination improvements...
- Quick search and pagination
"%s other result found" is another usability nightmare, but this can be hidden by increasing limits (see above). But IMHO quick search (as it is anyway server side) should directly return all results.
- Database jumping
Maybe we should consider some option for database jumping - providing select box with all databases which will bring user directly to this database. This seems to be quite frequent use case for people maintaining lot of databases and tree navigation makes this quite hard...
I think fast-filter feature may also be more handy for quickly jumping
databases:- - If we set the cursor focus by default on fast-filter feature when the user is in navi panel, (after removing "%s other result found" thing). This way user can just start typing a few characters in the name of the database..
Also, we could dynamically adjust the current "minimum 30 databases" limit on fast-filter feature, to enable fast-filter whenever the databases list is long enough that it goes down below the visible page height..