Hi César, On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 6:18 PM, César Arriaga Egüés <tol...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear friends at Pgadmin developer team: > > > > First of all I would like to thank very much you your commitment and > effort in developing such usable and professional tools like PgAdmin. > > > > But also I want to make you know that in my opinion PgAdmin4 has lose in > usability and performance respect to PgAdmin III, where I was used to > access the information in a more rapid way (with the same hardware). Of > course I’m sure that PgAdmin4 has a lot of advantages regarding to his new > architecture: maintainability, multi-platform, etc., that they will > contribute to the future of this tool. > > > > Regarding to usability: it is difficult for me to explain all the worse > user experience situations but I must say that in a whole the user > experience is worse. > > > > That is the reason for not having adopted yet PgAdmin4 in my daily work > (after some test drives) and why I’ve been using PgAdmin3 until today. > > > > But that is going to an end: I am started to use PostgreSQL 10 and PgAdmin > III issues to many compatibility errors… In other words: I am now forced to > rid of PgAdmin III and search for other alternatives. > > > > Issues to point (I enclose the reference to a previous thread regarding > some of them): > > - Performance: > - Starting the application. > - SQL Pane: time to refresh the SQL corresponding to a DB object. > > As per your comments, I think you are using pgAdmin 4 in Desktop runtime mode. The new version of pgAdmin 4 is going to release soon, with this release you will find the better performance. > > - > - > - Query tool: > - Lack of status bar: this functionality was very, very, very > useful. Not only for Line, column position, also for the last returned > information (query result time). Need of a fixed area for this kind of > information. > > You can add the feature request @ https://redmine.postgresql.org/projects/pgadmin4 > > - > - > - Query info notifier: related to the previous. I strongly > discourage you to use such kind of “moving” UI artifacts. Things that > appear and disappear could be nice and fancy for some users but also > annoying and focus losing: > - If you configure it to disappear: you want have the info. when > you need it unless you click (another click) the message history. > > We have already added configurable keyboard shortcuts for the common functionalities, so one can navigate through keyboard easily. You will have this feature in the next release. > > - > - > - > - When the notifier disappears: distraction, focus lose. We are > information users, needed of concentration, focus… > > The feature request to add an option to disable the notification animation has been already added @https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/1978 and that is on priority. > > - > - > - > - If you configure it to not disappear: you will get a stack of > messages that you will have to hide manually (each one)… > - Thanks god (and you) that you can configure to show Query tool in > a new Browser window (detachable from the main window indeed), but: > - It would be also useful to be able to configure these new > windows would be detached when they are created. > - Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, don’t work in detached Query Tool windows. I > suppose this can be amended. > > This issue will be fixed in the next release. > > - > - > - > - Backup and restore feedback: the same problems stated due to the > use of “notifier toasts”. > > > > Related conversation: > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1597397302. > 9546526.1506434712083%40mail.yahoo.com#1597397302.9546526. > 1506434712...@mail.yahoo.com > > > > Thanks again for your work. Looking forward to see these and new > improvements in incoming versions. > > > > César Arriaga > > > > > > > Thanks, Khushboo
