[Phpmyadmin-devel] Usability of Welcome page

[Pavel Konnikov]

Marc Delisle написал:
> Pavel Konnikov a écrit :
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> I analysed welcome page of phpMyAdmin and thought about simplify it
>> for non-admin users.
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ze85PZJPQL1dl4aOgaPTgw?authkey=Gv1sRgCM6t37PUrdXhXg&feat=directlink
>>
>> And suggest my vision of version of welcome page
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wZURKjM1YUbSfzBUL2Qpjg?authkey=Gv1sRgCM6t37PUrdXhXg&feat=directlink
>>
>> The most used operation with mysql through phpmyadmin is Basic
>> Administration operations (Database Managament, User Administration,
>> Backup and Restore) and Browse Databases (explore db structure, run
>> SQL queries and edit table data).
>> New users need some help as a rule. And we must provide some
>> documentation for them.
>>
>> This is my reflection about usability of phpmyadmin.
>>
>> What do you think about it?
>
> Hi Pavel,
> what happens if someone clicks Backup?
>
I would like to see some backup wizard as requested in rfe:2649375
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2649375&group_id=23067&atid=377411
The "Backup" is synonim for "Export".

> What is under the Administration
>
Full list of administration functions grouped by categories and
frequency of usage.

> and SQL Manipulation menus?
>
Tabs with query editor, result table and toolbar for running queries.

> I'm not sure about "Important Messages". If these were not important,
> why show them?
>
Ok we can replace "Important Messages" with some other phrase but idea
of this section is inform about problems. We can name it "Problems",
"System Messages" or "Messages" or something else.

> Where is the part named "MySQL" with MySQL server info, charset, etc?
>
In the "MySQL" block we have the following info:
"Server: localhost via TCP/IP" it may be shown at the "MySQL Server Status" page
"Server version: 5.1.44-community" it may be shown at the "MySQL
Server Status" page
"Protocol version: 10" why non-geek user should know protocol version?
"User: root at localhost" this shown at top right corner
"MySQL charset:  UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)" each db and table may have its
own charset and it more usefull display on with the table information
or no?

I want to participate in GSoC this year and can develop UI prototypes
for other parts. But I want to know that I am at the right direction.

Thank you for good questions.

> --
> Marc Delisle
> http://infomarc.info
>

Best regards. Pavel Konnikov