Re: [pgAdmin4][Patch]: Adding connection status in Query tool - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza.zabuawala@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

Hi Dave,

PFA updated patch.

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

Hi

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza.zabuawala@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

Hi Dave,

PFA updated patch,

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:44 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

Hi

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza.zabuawala@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

Hi,

PFA updated patch based on new design suggested by Chethana.

The patch also includes some misc fixes related to object validation.

RM#2475

This seems much nicer, but I still think there are some tweaks to make:

1) If I open a query tool, and then stop the application server, the icon is updated to show the broken connection. However, unless I execute a query in the query tool before the server is shut down, the connection status won't recover when the server is restarted. If I do run a query first (SELECT 1; will do), then the connection status will recover.

I have logged​ 

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https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/2983

2) I think the "connected" icon should be in $primary-blue (#2c76b4). The green is ugly and not overly easy to read. It's also distracting as it catches the eye, which the default, non-error state should not do.

​Fixed​

 

Much better.

 

3) I'm not overly happy with the the status text popover. After some thought, I think it's because there are no visual clues that you should click on the icon to see it - and Karen seems to be of a similar opinion. Can we put a small marker there, perhaps a triangle on the bottom-right, like you get on a spreadsheet cell if you add a comment/note? We should also have a hotkey and I guess a tooltip, e.g. "Connection status Ctrl+Alt+S" or similar.

​Fixed​

, added accesskey 'T' for TX status tooltip shortcut as 'S' is already taken for Save file option

Hmm - having seen it, I don't think the marker helps us.

Can you remove it, and fix the tooltip (which doesn't seem to work)? If we always have the tooltip say "Connection status Ctrl+Alt+T" (or whatever is appropriate for the platform/browser), then that should give the user enough hint to click.

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Fixed​.

I have removed the marker & added tooltip instead but it is not possible to add specific shortcut keys in tooltip because accesskey may vary depending on OS & browser.

​Ref: ​

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_accesskey.asp

That's better - though I think the tool tip is better as something like:

Connection status (click for details) (<accesskey>+T) 

I'm still not overly happy with all the polling that's going on though. It's a lot of requests, especially with multiple QTs open. I think we need to be able to disable the feature entirely through a switch in the Preferences. In that case, no icon would be shown, and polling would be disabled - i.e. everything would be as it is now.

What do you think?

+1

-- Thanks, Ashesh 

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