[Phpmyadmin-devel] Suggestion for the table export page

[Piotr Przybylski]

2011/5/2 Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info>:
> Tyron Madlener a écrit :
>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:
>>> Tyron Madlener a écrit :
>>>> In phpMyAdmin 3.3 most of the export settings were visible in one page
>>>> without scrolling, hence requiring only very few clicks to export what
>>>> you need. But in 3.4 when I try to export the table structure I first
>>>> need to click '(o) custom' then scroll down and search through all the
>>>> text where in order to find where I select  '(o) structure'. It feels
>>>> very unintuitive for me.
>>> Tyron,
>>> what do you mean "export the table structure"? Do you mean "export
>>> _just_ the table structure" ?
>>
>> Yes, just the table structure without data.
>>
>>> In 3.4, most of the time I leave it in Quick mode and am happy with the
>>> results.
>>>
>>> This panel in 3.4 was built this way by a GSoC 2010 student, based on
>>> the results of usability testings.
>>>
>>
>> Oh, I see. Still seems unintuitive for me.
>
> It can be improved but I feel that it's too late to change this in 3.4.x.
>
> About jQuery tabs, I'm not sure because the options vary, depending on
> the chosen format. Feel free to further discuss by explaining how many
> tabs there would be and their names.
>
>>
>>>> What about:
>>>> a) We put all the settings in jquery tabs
>>>> b) On the first tab will be the most used options: Format, Output type
>>>> (File / as Text) and what to dump (2 checkboxes for each data and
>>>> structure)
>>>>
>>>> Here's a demo of the tabs: http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/
>

I think that using jQuery UI Tabs is an overkill. It's nice in
applications built completely on top of this UI library, but it has a
lot of options that we don't really need. Simple custom made tabs take
around 25 lines of JavaScript and the code is already in PMA
(js/config.js, setTab).

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Regards,
Piotr Przybylski