[Phpmyadmin-devel] Better table navigation

[Tyron Madlener]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:
> Le 2011-06-30 10:41, Tyron Madlener a écrit :
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Aris Feryanto<aris_feryanto at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Current table navigation seems to be little messy, so I tried to make the
>>> table navigation tidier and more compact. You may see the screenshot at [0]
>>> or try the demo at usual location [1]. Feel free to give any comment or
>>> suggestion on this.
>>>   [0] https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Xs_dOR1F0WoXW4_dTB1CLhOTKK2V2rX6_OFfHt2Qo5E?feat=directlink
>>> [1] http://demo.phpmyadmin.net/gsoc-aris
>>
>> This is great, I've also found the navigation pretty messy but
>> couldn't come up with a good idea.
>> But as Marc mentions, the bar needs to get smaller. On my X61s
>> Thinkpad with only a resolution of 1024x768 a big part will be outside
>> the visible area.
>>
>> Making the horizontal/vertical select list smaller would be one step
>> (or removing it altogether)
>
> Seeing very few positive feedback on the devel and users list about the
> vertical browse mode, I am in favor of removing this feature.
>
> Or ...we could make the appearance of this select list configurable, the
> default being not visible. This way, people relying on this very old
> feature could configure it if they want to, but for the majority, the
> selector would be out of the way.
>
> If we decide to do this, we should remove vertical support for the
> special features like inline edit and the column reordering. All the new
> stuff would be planned only for horizontal mode.

Sounds like a good idea. Making it invisible by default, then check
how many people complain about its disappearance ;-)
Then, if only little people notice the change, it could be removed
completely altogether.

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