Re: [PATCH] Add a menu option for disabling restoration of previous environment on reconnect - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers
From | Dave Page |
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Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add a menu option for disabling restoration of previous environment on reconnect |
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Msg-id | CA+OCxox6STMvWCmAmy4sXAvK9pgLALs9jJgrba9-ERpTsukKEw@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: [PATCH] Add a menu option for disabling restoration of previous environment on reconnect (Kaarel Moppel <kaarel.moppel@gmail.com>) |
List | pgadmin-hackers |
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Kaarel Moppel <kaarel.moppel@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok can understand that, thanks for the explanation Dave. > > Btw, talking about what users need and use - the only sure way to get a > glimpse in there would be to add some kind of voluntary statistics > collection to improve the program, similar to what many bigger projects like > Firefox do. Currently to me it seems that though the name refers to database > administration, people mostly only use it for just quering, and when looking > at the TODO list I see a lot of admin features in planning and not so many > quering UX improvements, so there's a discrepancy there in my opinion. Have > there been any such ideas moving around or is it even technically possible > (with reasonable amount of work) from framework side? It's possible, and it's something I've thought about doing on a number of occasions, but haven't had the time to clear all the other issues above it on my priority list. To be honest, it's unlikely to get done until pgAdmin 4 I suspect. > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Kaarel Moppel <kaarel.moppel@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Oh indeed, missed the attachment somehow, sorry about that. >> > >> > And yes, there's an option already for that. But its on the 'advanced' >> > tab >> > with the default being "on" (changing this to "off" wouldn't probably be >> > nice now) meaning couple of extra clicks which in case of dozens of >> > servers >> > gets quickly quite annoying. >> >> Use sed on your config file to bulk-disable that option then. I don't >> see a need to complicate the code with this (and potentially follow-on >> options to do the same for other settings) for something that has been >> requested once in 10+ years and is trivial to work around. >> >> I know that sounds harsh, but we have to consider long term >> maintainability of the code, and complexity of the UI for the user. >> Yours is just one checkbox (well, two if we count your folding >> change), but we've had lots of such requests over the years. We can >> really only add those for which there is a clear need, or high demand. >> >> > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Guillaume Lelarge >> >> <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 09:59 +0530, Ashesh Vashi wrote: >> >> >> Did you forget to attach the patch? >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > And isn't this already handled in the server's property? >> >> >> >> Yes, it is. >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Kaarel Moppel >> >> >> <kaarel.moppel@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > Checkbox resides under "Options-> Browser -> UI misc". >> >> >> > >> >> >> > NB! didn't add the embed-xrc generated xrcDialogs.cpp class due to >> >> >> > verbosity, so it needs to executed by the code maintainer. >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > Guillaume >> >> > http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info >> >> > http://www.dalibo.com >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list >> >> > (pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org) >> >> > To make changes to your subscription: >> >> > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Dave Page >> >> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com >> >> Twitter: @pgsnake >> >> >> >> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com >> >> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Page >> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com >> Twitter: @pgsnake >> >> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com >> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > > -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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