Thanks, Anthony We will definitely consider your suggestions for the future v9.1 release
On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM Anthony DeBarros <anthonymdebar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Hackers, > > I have great respect for your efforts to continuously develop pgAdmin 4, > and it has certainly come a long way since version 1.0. Not to mention, > it’s free. Thank you for all your hard work. > > All that said, I think making the new Workspace layout the default in v > 9.0 was a regression and not an improvement, and already I see issues[1] > raised[2] from users. > > I use pgAdmin and DataGrip every day for writing queries, and I have a > fundamental issue with the new layout. Having the object explorer in a pane > to the left of the query editor is a standard setup, and rightly so — it’s > hard to remember names of tables and columns, and drag-and-drop makes life > easier. Having a layout that requires me to click another pane and > disappear the query itself, then click back, is too many steps. > Autocomplete doesn’t fill the need. > > Yes, I understand I can switch to “Classic,” and I’ve done so. But I want > to be an advocate for newer users and others who are upgrading and won’t > really understand what’s going on, where in settings to change the layout, > etc. > > A more gentle user experience for this type of change would have been to > have v 9.0 keep the “Classic” layout as the default and alert users upon > first launch that a new workspace layout was available — and explain where > in the settings to make the change. Small popups announcing new features > are a standard UX feature these days. > > That way, people can move on from the familiar to the new and know that > they can switch back if they’d like. Trust me when I tell you that many, > many pgAdmin users are students and people new to SQL who need hand-holding > from time to time. > > Thanks for listening, > Anthony > > [1] > https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7708#issuecomment-2640296446 > [2] https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8426 > > >
