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

[Nisarg Jhaveri]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:

> Nisarg Jhaveri a écrit :
> > 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?
>
> This part of the RFE was more a question to see the scope of the
> page-related settings; I believe that this question is now settled and
> we can drop it.
>

Okay :)


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