[Phpmyadmin-devel] GSoC 2014 - Refactoring: Designer/schema integration

[Madhura Jayaratne]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Bimal Yashodha <kb.yashodha at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As the 1st phase of my GSoC project - "Refactoring: Designer/schema
> integration", I've started the task 1, which is "Providing a single GUI
> editor for schema".
>
> As the "Designer" and "Edit relational schema" pages share overlapping
> functionalities, the idea is to bring these two pages and have a more
> improved page alone.Under this, functionalities of  the "Designer" will be
> improved in such a way, by combining features of the "Edit relational
> schema" page.
>
> For that I've created some mockups, and already published in my blog<http://kbyashodha.blogspot.com/2014/05/first-week-of-gsoc-2014.html>
> .
>

Great!


>
>  [image: Inline image 2]
>
> As shown in the above figure, I've introduced two new buttons into the
> "Designer" page, and followings are the functionalities:
>
> *Edit page: *A user can edit/delete an existing page.
>
> *Save as: *coordinates of the table layout can be saved to an existing
> page or to a new page.
>
> Apart from these two, while the user is loading the designer page,
>
>    - if there are previously saved pages exist, the the first page will
>    be loaded into the designer by default.
>
> It would be useful to display the loaded page's name somewhere, so the
user is not confused.

>
>    - if there are no such saved pages, then the default table layout will
>    be loaded.
>
> In this case the page name can be *New or something similar.

The second icon from right side used to provide functionality to
import/export coordinates from/to pdf pages. This needs to be removed.

-- 
Thanks and Regards,

Madhura Jayaratne
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