Great! Thanks Dave. We're having a look to see what seems feasible implementation-wise.
Tira On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 4:33 AM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Raffi Holzer <rhol...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > For those who don't know, Pivotal Labs is working with Greenplum to make > > pgAdmin 4 compatible with Greenplum. In addition to that, we have also > been > > conducting user research and figuring out ways in which the user > experience > > of pgAdmin might be improved. Below are a few of the ideas we are > thinking > > about. Would love to get your feedback. > > > > > > Select a column in query output > > > > From our research, we saw that users need to be able to transfer their > query > > output to a text editor or some other program to share with their > > colleagues. This is one feature that would enable them to quickly do so. > > > > Drag and select should work in query results > > > > Because most programs enable users to drag and highlight a selection of > text > > to copy and paste, they expect to be able to do so here as well. > > > > Output selection modified by Shift+direction keyboard shortcuts > > > > From our research, we saw that users tend to use keyboard shortcuts when > > typing or selecting items. Because this is a feature available in most > other > > apps, the expectation is that it would be in pgAdmin as well. > > I think all of those are perfectly reasonable suggestions and cannot > see why they cannot be added to Redmine as feature requests > immediately. I can't imagine anyone would object to them - and there's > little to discuss in terms of design. > > On the implementation side however, there is the question of how we do > this. Ideally I suspect these would need to be updates or plugins to > SlickGrid, that we can then pull back from upstream. Unless it's > absolutely essential, we should not modify the code we pull in from > other projects. What we could perhaps do, is update the code we have, > implement the changes, then submit them back upstream, finally merging > them back when upstream next release. > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > > > -- > Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list (pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers >
