Hi, On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 6:22 PM Dave Page <dave.p...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hi > > On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 at 11:07, Aditya Toshniwal < > aditya.toshni...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > >> Hi Dave/Hackers, >> >> After thinking more about it, I now have a different proposal. We should >> club all object related stuff under a single tab. >> Basically, we can have one tab say - Object Info and under that tab we >> will have sub tabs/layout - Summary, SQL, Statistics, Dependents and >> Dependencies. Users can re-shuffle the tabs layout under the Object Info >> tab as per choice. The advantage of this would be less cluttered tabs, more >> space for other tabs and all object related tabs under one umbrella. >> >> To Summarise, the default tabs would be - Dashboard, Object Info, >> Processes, <more tools as opened>... >> > > Well that won't happen for 7.0... > > I'm not entirely against the idea, but it's one of those things that I > think I'd want to see before committing to. I can envisage what it would > look like, but not how it would feel to use. > Then I should probably revert the "Edit Object..." back to "Properties..." as before until decide on something. > > >> >> Thoughts? >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 4:24 PM Aditya Toshniwal < >> aditya.toshni...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Dave, >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:59 PM Dave Page <dave.p...@enterprisedb.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 11:11, Aditya Toshniwal < >>>> aditya.toshni...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Hackers, >>>>> >>>>> One of the users had raised a concern regarding confusing "Properties" >>>>> label - one on the tab (read only) and another one on context(to edit) - >>>>> https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/4734. We are using the >>>>> label "Edit the object" on the Edit button of the properties tab already. >>>>> So I suggest we should rename the context "Properties..." to "Edit >>>>> Object..." >>>>> for consistency as well as to make it more meaningful. >>>>> >>>>> Thoughts? >>>>> >>>> >>>> I disagree. "Properties" is the standard name for that type of dialogue >>>> throughout Windows and many/most Linux windowing systems (e.g. Gnome). On >>>> macOS, the equivalent is "Get Info". I don't think we should deviate from >>>> a few decades of use of that name based on a single ticket (if anything, >>>> maybe we should make it say "Get Info" when the UI is displayed on a mac). >>>> >>>> Dave's point in his bug report is mostly that we also use the term >>>> "Properties" for the panel in the main UI in which we display some >>>> properties (but not all, and sometimes extra, over what is in the >>>> dialogue). I would not object to renaming that panel to "Object Summary" or >>>> similar, to correspond with "Object Explorer". >>>> >>>> Which then leads to another thought - we've used one-word naming in the >>>> past for tabs. We now have "Object Explorer", and I just suggested "Object >>>> Summary" - but those imply we should also have "Object Dependencies", >>>> "Object Dependents", and "Object SQL", which I definitely do not like. >>>> >>>> So maybe everything should have a one word label? >>>> >>> I am fine with renaming the tab instead of the context menu. We can >>> rename the "Properties" tab to just "Summary"/"Info" and everything works >>> as before. We don't need to add "Object" to tabs. >>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dave Page >>>> VP, Chief Architect, Database Infrastructure >>>> Blog: https://www.enterprisedb.com/dave-page >>>> Twitter: @pgsnake >>>> >>>> EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks, >>> Aditya Toshniwal >>> pgAdmin Hacker | Software Architect | *edbpostgres.com* >>> <http://edbpostgres.com> >>> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE" >>> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Aditya Toshniwal >> pgAdmin Hacker | Software Architect | *edbpostgres.com* >> <http://edbpostgres.com> >> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE" >> > > > -- > Dave Page > VP, Chief Architect, Database Infrastructure > Blog: https://www.enterprisedb.com/dave-page > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com > -- Thanks, Aditya Toshniwal pgAdmin Hacker | Software Architect | *edbpostgres.com* <http://edbpostgres.com> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
