[Phpmyadmin-devel] Main page reorganization

[Lori Lee]

I am going to make an online survey and post it in the users mailing list to
find out what tab people in different roles use the most.

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Dieter Adriaenssens <
dieter.adriaenssens at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 2010/5/15 Lori Lee <leelorik at gmail.com>:
> > Hi Marc,
> >
> > Regarding the log out button, I removed it because there is already one
> in
> > the sidebar and I didn't see what advantage there was to also having it
> on
> > this page.
> >
> > I have two updated screenshots:
> >
> > http://lorilee1.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/main_page_no_icons.png This
> one
> > is basically the same as the previous one but also includes the list of
> > servers, if there are more than one.
> >
> > http://lorilee1.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/main_page_icons.png This one
> is
> > the same as above but still has the old icons on the left hand side. I
> also
> > added two icons for Background color and Font size (I just found them on
> > Google Images but they will probably have to be remade if we decide to
> use
> > them). I think it looks odd, though, that Name does not have an icon and
> I
> > can't think of an appropriate one.
>
> I like the one with the icons. It looks more appealing than just
> buttons. As for the Name-icon, you could use one that represents a
> database. It usually is represented by the picture of a cylinder (or
> is this only with MSSQL?).
>
> > I placed Change password in the settings because that is where it is
> > typically found in applications.
> >
> > Whichever tab is most often used would make the most sense to have as the
> > default page. I am guessing this is the Databases tab but I may be wrong.
>
> I'm quite used to the current default page, but I guess that for most
> users the databases page would be the most wanted starting page. Most
> developers do, I think.
> However, the databases tab makes only sense when you have access to
> more than one database.
> Showing the database page (with an overview of tables, and tabs :
> structure, sql, search, query, ..., operations, drop) is more logical
> in that case.
> For sysadmins and DBA's, the status tab or priviliges tab would be
> better as a default, but that depends on preference.
>
> Greets,
>
> Dieter
>
> > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Lori Lee a écrit :
> >> > Hello everyone,
> >> >
> >> > I have created a prototype of a proposed redesign of the main page:
> >> > http://lorilee1.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/index_page_new.png. I
> feel
> >> > that this is a more logical organization of the information and makes
> it
> >> > easier to scan. I made the bullets all identical (in the screenshot
> they
> >> > look like they are different sizes but they are not supposed to be)
> >> > because in the current version, some bullets are an icon that is
> >> > meaningful to that bullet item (ex. Change password), while others
> >> > simply have a triangle (ex. Custom color) -- which, by the way, looks
> >> > misleadingly clickable. This makes it seem like these two categories
> of
> >> > bullets mean different things, when they actually do not.
> >> >
> >> > Another feature that may be useful is allowing each group of items to
> be
> >> > collapsed and expanded and keeping that state for future sessions.
> >> >
> >> > Please let me know what you think of these suggestions.
> >>
> >> Lori,
> >> It's a good cleanup.
> >>
> >> It's true that triangles were misleading, but no more little icons next
> >> to some of the choices?
> >>
> >> Also, in the actual "Actions" section, there are also
> >> - server dialog, in case multiple servers are defined
> >> - Log out link
> >> Where would you put these?
> >>
> >> I'm not sure about putting "Change password" in Settings.
> >>
> >> Also, someone on a discussion list was saying that this whole Home panel
> >> should not appear by default as it's not commonly used. However I wonder
> >> what should be there instead (this is configured in
> >> $cfg['DefaultTabServer']).
> >>
> >> --
> >> Marc Delisle
> >> http://infomarc.info
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Lori
> >
> >
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> Dieter Adriaenssens
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Thanks,
Lori
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