Re: Request for feedback: Alternate desktop runtime architecture

Hi

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:31 AM, Anthony DeBarros <adebarros(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

>
> Hi, Dave,
>
> I've been testing this on macOS High Sierra for a few days. Overall, very
> positive feedback. The app seems fast, and I've experience no glitches yet.
>

Great, thanks for testing.

>
> One minor point:
>
> In the desktop app, hovering the mouse over a cell of type "text" will
> show a tool tip with all text in that cell (e.g. the overflow that's not
> visible). That's missing in the web app.
>

It works for me in Chrome (on Sierra). What browser are you using?

>
> Aside from that, I'm not seeing anything here of concern. Nice job.
>
> Anthony
>
>
> On January 23, 2018 at 9:48:43 AM, Dave Page (dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org) wrote:
>
> All,
>
> As you may know, the most troublesome part of pgAdmin 4 has been the
> desktop runtime application, which has relied on QtWebKit and QtWebEngine
> (of various origins and versions) to render the UI as part of the Qt
> framework.
>
> This has caused performance issues, rendering issues with remote desktop
> sessions, keyboard navigation issues and more. It probably accounts for 25%
> or more of the bugs reports we deal with.
>
> Unfortunately, whilst there are alternatives to Qt for this purpose, none
> that we've found are mature enough for our purposes, and would require a
> significant amount of effort to add the features we would need to support
> pgAdmin.
>
> I've therefore been experimenting with another approach in which pgAdmin
> is rendered in a regular web browser when running in desktop mode. Like
> some other similar applications, a server process is launched and lives in
> the system tray, from where it can be shutdown at any time, or new windows
> opened. When it is first started, it will launch a browser window to render
> pgAdmin automatically. If additional instances are launched, the previously
> running instance will be re-used to avoid wasting resources.
>
> This is a proof of concept at the moment, for which I would appreciate any
> feedback. Windows and Mac builds can be found here:
>
> https://developer.pgadmin.org/~dpage/runtime-revamp/
>
> and the GIT branch can be found here:
>
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgadmin4.git;a=
> shortlog;h=refs/heads/runtime-revamp
>
> Thanks!
>
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>
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>
>

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