[Phpmyadmin-devel] Column reordering

[Rouslan Placella]

On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 21:18 -0400, Marc Delisle wrote:
> Le 2011-06-10 23:58, Aris Feryanto a écrit :
> > 
> > On 10 Jun 2011, at 20:31, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:
> > 
> >> Aris Feryanto a écrit :
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info>
> >>>>
> >>>> Aris Feryanto a écrit :
> >>>>> Done in my git.
> >>>>>> I am also wondering how to "publicize" these two new features 
> >>>> (how to 
> >>>>>> make  more apparent that these are available).
> >>>> Aris,
> >>>> do you believe this feature is ready to be merged to the official tree?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Marc,
> >>>
> >>> How about the way to publicize the features? Should we implement it first? There were several suggestions from Tyron and me regarding this.
> >>
> >> Yes, please try to find something.
> >>
> > 
> > I've updated my repo and it should be available in the demo soon. I add small popup balloon when we hover the column header. I also add some css code to prettify the column dragging. Please kindly check this.
> > 
> > P.S.: All my changes for column resize and reorder can be found under "colresize" branch in my git repo.
> 
> Yes, I believe that this is good advertising. Also, people should
> already know how to sort by column so they will discover the new
> dragging pointer and now with the balloon they will know that it's
> possible to drag.
> 
> One thing: when the pointer is over the column name and a click would
> sort instead of drag, the balloon still says Click to drag. The balloon
> says something different that the tooltip who is saying Sort.
> 
> I cannot reproduce the bug in Rouslan's video with my setup (Firefox
> 4.1.0 under Vista).
> 
> By the way, Rouslan, nice idea to show a video like this.
> 
I just couldn't think of any way to explain that behaviour with words,
so that's why I made a video :)

Rouslan