[Phpmyadmin-devel] Usability of Welcome page

[Marc Delisle]

Marc Delisle a écrit :
> Pavel Konnikov a écrit :
>> 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.
> 
> Of course, discussion about UI is often a matter of preferences. 
> However, looking at your proposed Welcome page, I wonder which kind of 
> users you are targeting. It seems to be intended for sysadmins. What 
> would a non-privileged user see?
> 
> Also, some simple actions like "Create database", "Change password" and 
> the interface choices are gone?
> 

I forgot: I don't think we are allowed to used the MySQL Dolphin logo.

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Marc Delisle
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