[Phpmyadmin-devel] Navigation tree problems

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. https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/pull/647 - 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... - Preserving state on reload This has been already discussed before. -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com