Re: Some remarks to pgadmin III - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: claus [mailto:ch@greenmail.ch]
> Sent: 14 August 2003 16:00
> To: pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] Some remarks to pgadmin III
>
>
> Hello again List,
>
> I just tried pgadmin III for the first time, a great piece
> of work.
>
> I just have some very minor remarks that could be useful
> while beta testing is still in progress.
>
> I post them on this list since I could not find a bug tracker.
> Most of my remarks may be due to the fact that I do not know
> your cross-plattform development constraints and implementation
> choices. Personaly I used it on M$ XP for the moment.
> Please forgive me if the remarks sound stupid.
> Also I used pgadmin III only for a very short time.
>
> (in no particular order)
> o Quick drill down in treeview is painfull:.
>   When drilling down the "+" indicating that there are other
> elements below
>   does not appear at once. The node must be selected first
> (like pgadmin II < 1.6)
>   If double-click the node the properties show up (not like
> pgadmin II 1.6)
>   I suggest either to display a "+" per default even if it is
> not certain that other
>   elements exist. The plus may disappear when trying to open
> with no nodes below.
>   Or allow double-click to drill down quickly and use right
> click for properties.

Whilst you cannot easily make the + appear quickly, under File ->
Options you can turn off 'Double-Click for Properties' to allow quicker
browsing. The + appear automatically if there are child nodes so we
cannot easily put it there by default unless we add dummy nodes.

> o Context-Menu key (the one between the right windows key and
> the control key)
>   does not work.

Added to Bugs.

> o Empty icon when changing task using Alt-Tab

Added to Bugs.

> o Help menu - Bugreport - no http link works (do you use the
> proxy settings?)

Added to Bugs.

> o Right click works only on tree view not in the properties
> frame(feature ?)

Yes, that's by design.

> o Dropped servers reappear when changing "display system
> objects" due to
>   the disconnect/tree refresh

Added to Bugs

> o Crtl-A (select all) does not work in most of the text boxes
>  e.g. analyse/vacuum message window
>       Databse properties comment
>       ...

Added to Bugs.

> o Query tool shows up with objects creation SQL. Ok this is a feature
>   but could it be an optional one :-)

It is - check the Options form :-)

Thanks for the bug reports.

Regards, Dave.