Hello. I just started using pgAdmin 4, and first of all let me say it looks very promising. Works much better on high DPI displays.
And I especially like that it is no longer affected so much by high latency network connections. The old pgAdmin really struggled when the database was on a different continent than the client computer. It seems pgAdmin III was doing a lot of round trips over the network for some operations. That being said, I think there is still room for improvement for the user interface. In particular, I don't think replacing the native operating system file open dialog was the greatest idea. This introduces a lot of limitations, and even the stuff that works has some issues. My greatest problem with the file dialog is that you can't paste a file/folder path in it. Or copy the current path for that matter. Or type the file path manually in any way. Aside from the inconvenience of having to navigate manually, that means that, on Windows, you can't open a file directly from a network share that is not mapped to a drive letter. Or save it directly to a network share. Or navigate to a network share folder, because you can't type a file path like \\host\share\folder\folder\file.sql Also you can't open a file directly from the web, because you can't enter something like http://host/path/file.sql in the dialog box. And finally, when navigating through the folders/drives using the current version (1.0), double clicking on the folder/drive icons doesn't seem to work. You have to double click on the folder name/drive name. Also the dialog opens quite slowly. So, in my opinion, if technically feasible, the decision to replace the native OS file open dialog with a platform independent dialog should be reversed. I think the problems it introduces outweigh any benefits. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/pgAdmin-4-1-0-beta4-Query-Tool-Select-file-popup-issues-tp5919048p5927613.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - pgadmin support mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgadmin-support mailing list (pgadmin-support@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-support
