[Phpmyadmin-devel] Non-configuration local settings in Page-related settings

[Nisarg Jhaveri]

On May 18, 2015 1:11 AM, "Marc Delisle" <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:
>
> Le 2015-05-17 09:34, Nisarg Jhaveri a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > One part of RFE for Page-related settings says the following.
> > "There are also other ways to set options. In Browse, we have Options,
> > and other remembered settings like column visibility, column sorting and
> > order of display. I am not sure if these mechanisms should be integrated
> > or not to the new way."
> >
> > I've been thinking about this and now I am confused about its usefulness
> > and implementation. Here is what I think.
> >
> > These kind of options are accessible directly from where they are used.
> > For example, column sorting is just clicking on the column header. Which
> > is intuitive enough and easily accessible. I don't think we need another
> > place to manage those. IMHO, it would be just useless.
>
> Agreed.
>
> >
> > Since, these settings are integrated in UI, to have their other
> > not-integrated form seems a little difficult. For example, multiple
> > column sorting is easily shown in the header of table with priority
> > numbers, but to have it somewhere else, we'll have to think of some
> > other form to show and edit this settings.
> >
> > The type and UI will be quite different for each such option. We can't
> > unify them that easily.
> >
> > Also, sometimes, they are location specific even in one page, so having
> > them in a global page settings doesn't make much sense. To overcome
> > this, we can multiple instances of settings in the page, but that would
> > be just as same as existing techniques.
>
> Right. So the page-related settings should not be specific to one item
> (column, table, database, etc). For example, setting a column's
> visibility or hiding/unhiding a table should not be in the page-related
> settings.
>
> However, in table Browse, I should be able to access Settings > Main
> panel > Browse mode.

Yeah, those are global configuration options and will be available there.

>
> >
> > Any thoughts about this are much appreciated. Should we do this? How
> > should we do this? What settings can possibly be added?
> >
> > Sorry for a long mail, but I'm a little confused and would like some
help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nisarg
> >

So, do we drop this part of the RFE? Any other thoughts? Anyone else?
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