Hi Avin, My $0.02
On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 2:11 PM Avin Kavish <avinkav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > Here's some unofficial input on the topic. > > This request baffles me for two reasons. > > a. Why does one need a standalone window when they can have pgAdmin open > in a tab while multi-tasking. Is there ever a time when the web browser is > closed while using a pc in 2019? If you lose tabs you can pin the tab and > it will always be on the left side. > quite often actually. I have *lots* of work to do that doesn't involve a web browser. > b. If you want it to run in it's own window, you can drag and pull the tab > to it's own standalone window. > pulling the tab out wouldn't do *anything* toward solving his problem, which revolved around password management > If that doesn't solve your problem, > > You can try Nativefier but you might need to launch pgAdmin on the same > port each time. It basically wraps any web site in an electron app. > Electron fyi allows developing desktop apps using web technologies. It's > based on chromium and nodejs and renders web apps just like google chrome > would. https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier > so he would need to install nodejs, npm, nativefier, either open a command line/terminal every time he wants to start pgAdmin4 or write a batch/shell script to start it. He would also have to remember to start the pgAdmin *server* separately and forget about using the "New pgAdmin window" function. To add insult to injury, he'd have to have separate scripts/commands if he should want a tray icon or to run it full screen. > > Or if you are a javascript developer you can write an electron app > yourself to encapsulate and extend upon the current functionality. > https://electronjs.org/ > so, your final suggestion is that, *if* he's a javascript developer he could simply *write his own program* to fix a perceived pgAdmin4 shortcoming. > Personally, I find it convenient to have it as a tab while reading docs > and other stuff and often prefer it to switching to my IDE. > > I'm glad that you find the current set up convenient, unfortunately it seems like this is a problem for at least Mark and tutiluren. > Once again, this is unofficial. I'm not part of the team. > neither am I. Personally I have my own issues with the decision to write pgAdmin4 as a *web app* running in it's own self contained web server. However I don't think that there is much of a desire among the *official* dev team to change this. rik. > Regards, > Avin > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 10:51 PM Murtuza Zabuawala < > murtuza.zabuaw...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am afraid this is not possible at a moment, pgAdmin4 doesn't have its >> own UI rendering engine so it is dependent on the default web browser on >> the user's system. >> >> -- Murtuza >> >> On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, 21:32 Mark Murawski, <markm-li...@intellasoft.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> How can I go back to the traditional pgadmin4 interface where it runs in >>> its own window. I do not want to launch it as a browser tab. >>> >>> >>>
