Peter Eisentraut wrote:
I have a few comments on the server properties dialog on issues that have
bothered me for a long time.
First, the title of the window is something like "Server localhost", which
means nothing. Perhaps this should be "Connection Properties" or "Server
Properties".
When I read "Description" I think of sentence or paragraph length descriptions
(cf. ODBC data sources). Perhaps "Name" is better.
Then, the term "Address" is a bit confusing. PostgreSQL tools typically use
the terms host, port, username, database. So please use "Host" here, too.
The "Service" field is unclear to me and it clashes with the termin service as
applied by libpq. See concurrent discussion on pgsql-hackers.
"store password" should be capitalized.
Overall, the arrangement of the fields could be optimized. The "Description"
field is something that the user makes up whereas the other ones are
necessitated by the environment, so it would be sense to group them together
that way. Also, host and port should be closer together. I imagine this
would be better:
Name:
Host:
Port: SSL:
Username:
Password:
Store Password:
Maintenance DB:
Service(?):
Connection Now:
I'd propose to use "Host address" to make it a little clearer.
The word "Service" is, as Dave already pointed out, the correct one
under Win32. However, it's certainly not very meaningful under *ix, so
how can we call this? In theory, we could name the field different in
the win32 and the *ix versions (they can control only local servers),
but this also affects the documentation so a common name for all
versions would highly desirable.
I would also welcome as a click-saving measure that "Connection Now" be
transformed into a button. So replace the OK buttong by, say, "Save" and
"Save and Connect".
Easier said than done. The OK button is handled generalized in a class
deep down, but it's doable (this applies to new registrations only, for
editing existent ones it's still ok).
Regards,
Andreas
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