[Phpmyadmin-devel] Favourite Tables Drop Down for Navigation Panel

Marc Delisle marc at infomarc.info
Sat Feb 15 15:56:29 CET 2014


Le 2014-02-14 23:49, Isaac Bennetch a écrit :
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> 
> On Feb 14, 2014, at 11:17 PM, Chanaka Dharmarathna
> <pe.chanaka.ck at gmail.com <mailto:pe.chanaka.ck at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Isaac Bennetch <bennetch at gmail.com
>> <mailto:bennetch at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
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>>     On 2/14/14 6:36 AM, Chanaka Dharmarathna wrote:
>>     > Hi,
>>     >
>>     > I think the feature request [0] will be a useful one. As Marc
>>     mentioned
>>     > we need the think about saving the space in navigation panel.
>>     What about
>>     > use 2 radio buttons to switch between Recent Tables and the
>>     Favourite
>>     > Tables with the same drop down as displayed in the image [1].
>>     Using a
>>     > tool tip for radio buttons will help to familiar with this feature.
>>     >
>>     > To make it more configurable, we can use two global variables for
>>     > enabling this feature and for default radio selection (whether
>>     Recent
>>     > Tables by default or Favourite Tables by default). I didn't look
>>     into
>>     > the implementations yet. But I think it should be possible.
>>     >
>>     > Appreciate your thoughts on this.
>>     >
>>     > [0] : http://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/feature-requests/1476/
>>     > [1] : http://i.imgur.com/NGjIvNA.png
>>     >
>>     > Regards !
>>     > --
>>     > Chanaka Dharmarathna
>>     > *http://chanakaindrajith.blogspot.com/*
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     This is something I've been hoping we can improve for some time, and I
>>     really took some good inspiration from the new theme and layout
>>     recently
>>     proposed by Edward Cheng.
>>
>>     I'm thinking we should have a small series of links to allow users to
>>     click to "All", "Favorite", and "Recent" display. Please see the
>>     attached mockup for an idea of what I have in mind.
>>
>>     Favorites and recents can be stored in PMA Configuration Storage or
>>     local storage as we do with user preferences.
>>
>>     What do you all think of this idea?
>>
>>
>> Hi Isaac,
>>
>> It seems really fine for me.
>> So, click on "All" will show both Recent and Favourite tables, in a
>> categorized drop down. Is it ?
> 
> I propose "All" being the current tree view; Recent and Favorite would
> replace the tree view with a bullet list or similar display with one
> line per table (or view). I can do a further mockup later. 

I'm not sure about replacing the tree view with recent/favorite tables.
I find it useful to be able to see both the tree and recent tables.
> 
>>
>> Btw, we only show tables in that drop down right. So do we need at
>> least mention the phrase "table" in tool tip. Do you think it is enough ?
> 
> Sorry, I'm not sure which tool tip you're referring in this case. 
> 



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