[Phpmyadmin-devel] Recently Used Tables

[Aris Feryanto]

On 16 Mei 2011, at 19:37, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:

> Tyron Madlener a écrit :
>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:
>>> Tyron Madlener a écrit :
>>>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Aris Feryanto <aris_feryanto at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> The intention of providing recently used tables is to make users able to
>>>>> jump between tables (they used recently) in different databases. I don't
>>>>> think this can be achieved by sorting the main list, since:
>>>>> 1. Current navigation frame has two kind of views: light version (dbs list
>>>>> first, then if you click one db, it will display the tables list of that db)
>>>>> and complete version (all dbs + tables in one list).
>>>>> In the light version, it will displays only tables of one db (tables from
>>>>> other dbs are not shown). So, we can't jump between tables in different dbs.
>>>>> In the full version, list of tables are grouped by their dbs. Sorting will
>>>>> messed up the list.
>>>>> 2. The users will be confused by the "always changing" dbs/tables list.
>>>> True, switching between tables from different dbs wouldn't work then.
>>>> If the table/db list would be implemented as collapsable tree, then it
>>>> would work :)
>>> This feature exists but is not enabled by default.

Just want to make sure we all refer to the same thing. I guess "this feature" here, means only the collapsable tree (not along with the sorting). Please correct me if I am wrong.

And @Tyron: even the collapsable tree can be sorted (sort by the db first, then sort by the tables for each db), I think it is not a good idea to do so. As I've mentioned before, users will be confused by the "always changing" list (e.g. If tables are sorted from the most recently used, you do not want to spend more time to look for a table in the list because the list often change, right? :)

>> 
>> How come it is not the default setting? Because it loads too slow?
> 
> At least, this was the case when the number of tables per database was 
> computed. Also, I don't believe that this method respects the maximum 
> number of databases in navi panel.
> 
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