[Phpmyadmin-devel] Create table dialog

[Tyron Madlener]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:
> Le 2011-06-25 08:56, Tyron Madlener a écrit :
>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Marc Delisle<marc at infomarc.info>  wrote:
>>> Le 2011-06-25 08:07, Tyron Madlener a écrit :
>>>> I apologize for my directness but the newly implemented 'Create table'
>>>> Dialog has an awful usability.
>>>
>>> Tyron,
>>> thanks for your post. There are two issues here:
>>>
>>> 1. the AJAX create table dialog
>>>
>>> 2. the ENUM/SET editor
>>>
>>> and they should be discussed separately.
>>>
>>> About 1, I am wondering if AJAXification was an advantage here. See also
>>> the discussion on 2011-04-08 "Issues with AJAX" on this list. I
>>> suggested a mechanism to hide most form fields by default.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, I've read through the conversation. I would agree on hiding
>> rarely used fields like "Browser transformation,Transformation
>> options,MIME type" but otherwise such feature in my opinion would only
>> decrease usability.
>> Hiding most form fields maybe fixes the problem, but it doesn't fix the cause.
>
> One cause is the number of form fields for each column, and the small
> work area of the dialog increases this space problem.
>
>>
>> I don't think an ajax dialog for 'create table' is inherently worse.
>> It could actually be significantly better if for example the dialog
>> could span over the left frame as well, giving more editing space than
>> the old style create table page.
>
> I'm not sure that we can span a dialog over the other frame.

Yea, such feature will probably only work after framesets have been
removed, which should be done in the not so far future, I think

> Besides,
> the idea of the navigation frame is to have a reference spot that is
> always available.

Why would someone need the navigation frame to be visible when a
dialog is open? If he needs to navigate away, a click on the ESC
button and he can do so again.
The gain from having more space would be greater than the
inconvenience of not seeing the navigation frame, I think.

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