[Phpmyadmin-devel] about Action and More

Michal Čihař michal at cihar.com
Mon Dec 27 14:40:49 CET 2010


Hi

Dne Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:46:39 +0100
Dieter Adriaenssens <dieter.adriaenssens at gmail.com> napsal(a):

> 2010/12/21 Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in table Structure, under Action we have several action verbs but (under
> > More) we have also terms like "Primary", "Index". It was suggested in a
> > bug report to change them to "Add primary", "Add index", etc.
> >
> > I think it makes sense. Comments?
> 
> It makes sense. I have no objections.

I agree as well.

> On a side note : In 3.4 text was added to those icons (in structure,
> database and tables overview, ...) . It certainly helps identifying
> what those buttons do, but on some pages, fe the tables overview, it
> all becomes a bit crowded in my opinion. What was wrong with just the
> mouseover captions? Is there an option to disable the inline caption
> and just have a mouseover caption?

It was changed by Lori after doing some tests where almost nobody was
able to guess what most of the icons should actually do. And I must say
it's quite true, so it makes sense to start with text + icons and allow
users to disable text later after they get familiar with the icons.

-- 
	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://phpmyadmin.cz
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