25 Mar
2010
25 Mar
'10
2:55 a.m.
Thank your for the reply Michal.
You made yourself clear about *code* projects.
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.
thomas.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Michal Čihař <michal(a)cihar.com> wrote:
Hi
Dne Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:42:25 -0300
Thomas de Lima <tfl3000(a)gmail.com> napsal(a):
My name is Thomas de Lima.
I'm a computer engineering student from Brazil. I want to discuss more
the
idea of redesigning PMA, because I want to be
sure I understood it
correctly.
Design is not only about changing color or shapes in the user interface,
but
also about changing how the user interacts with
the application, towards
improving usability. So, the "User interface cleanup" project needs to be
codeveloped with the AJAX team. Is that right?
I read an email from our indian colleague Anirvana Mishra, excited about
ajaxifying PMA. But then Michal answered that he should pick one specific
area to improve, cause there's too much functionality in PMA.
Yes, you can not convert everything to AJAX during summer, so you need
to choose some area.
Well, as a
database manager, the PMA should be lightweight and "usable". For
example,
it takes a great deal of HTML download and clicks
to find and edit
someone's
data in a huge personnel table. AJAX could solve
both problems by opening
a
quickedit option on a browse table's row,
which could be quickly found by
an
AJAX filter on top. So I think one of the
"User interface cleanup"
project
goals should be study of which features need to
be ajaxified or changed,
or
whatever, not about picking, before a deeper
study, an area to improve.
Please note that this is summer of *code*, so we can not accept studies,
but only coding projects for GSoC. Generally it would be helpful, but
is out of scope for GSoC (as well as other things we currently can not
do ourselves because of time limits).
For this purpose I wish to apply as an GSoCer to
improve the PMA user
interface, cause I frequently use it to manage my databases remotely. Of
course PMA's usability now is excellent, as everything is intuitively put
in
place, but it feels soooo Web1.0, so static.
Well I would not tell that usability is excellent...
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