[Phpmyadmin-devel] Suggestion for the table export page

[Tyron Madlener]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Piotr Przybylski <piotr.prz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

jQuery UI Tabs is already included in phpMyAdmin. So we have no
additional overhead. And the code will be easier to read using jquery
ui tabs.

>
> --
> Regards,
> Piotr Przybylski
>
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