Hi Piotr,
When entering "More settings" page, we no longer see the "server" series of top menus and I'm wondering if they should stay there, over the settings tabs. Maybe there should be a "User settings" top menu too?
I agree that this "server" series of menus need work to be regrouped in less choices, but I feel that now, a user could feel a bit lost when they disappear.
2010/7/5 Marc Delisle marc@infomarc.info:
Hi Piotr,
When entering "More settings" page, we no longer see the "server" series of top menus and I'm wondering if they should stay there, over the settings tabs. Maybe there should be a "User settings" top menu too? I agree that this "server" series of menus need work to be regrouped in less choices, but I feel that now, a user could feel a bit lost when they disappear.
I did it that way because I had no good idea for one more level of tabs, settings are installation-wide, not server-specific, and because it was easy to use existing code :) I think now I may have an idea to make it look good, I will give it a try.
Piotr Przybylski a écrit : (...)
settings are installation-wide, not server-specific
(...)
Piotr, I don't follow you. Settings are stored in the pmadb on one server, right? Therefore if I switch server I could obtain different settings?
2010/7/6 Marc Delisle marc@infomarc.info:
Piotr Przybylski a écrit : (...)
settings are installation-wide, not server-specific
(...)
Piotr, I don't follow you. Settings are stored in the pmadb on one server, right? Therefore if I switch server I could obtain different settings?
Yes, sorry... that's what I get for writing at midnigt :)
Piotr Przybylski a écrit :
2010/7/6 Marc Delisle marc@infomarc.info:
Piotr Przybylski a écrit : (...)
settings are installation-wide, not server-specific
(...)
Piotr, I don't follow you. Settings are stored in the pmadb on one server, right? Therefore if I switch server I could obtain different settings?
Yes, sorry... that's what I get for writing at midnigt :)
No problem, but thinking of it, maybe users will be under the impression that when they choose some setting, it follows them when they switch MySQL servers and it might be prudent to inform them about this on the interface.
Or we would need to set up a "master" pmadb in which settings are stored to follow users everywhere (which might stray too much from our current mechanism).
Piotr Przybylski a écrit :
2010/7/6 Marc Delisle marc@infomarc.info:
Piotr Przybylski a écrit : (...)
settings are installation-wide, not server-specific
(...)
Piotr, I don't follow you. Settings are stored in the pmadb on one server, right? Therefore if I switch server I could obtain different settings?
Yes, sorry... that's what I get for writing at midnigt :)
No problem, but thinking of it, maybe users will be under the impression that when they choose some setting, it follows them when they switch MySQL servers and it might be prudent to inform them about this on the interface.
Or we would need to set up a "master" pmadb in which settings are stored to follow users everywhere (which might stray too much from our current mechanism).
I was thinking about using HTML 5 storage for that (user would be asked about importing settings), but I have yet to see whether it will work - I have never used this API and I don't want to show any browser warnings without user doing anything that would warrant it.
-
Marc Delisle -
Piotr Przybylski