Re: More information about the selected objects

On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 18:57 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> On Saturday, July 14, 2012, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 11:28 -0300, Vinicius Santos wrote:
> >
> > Not sure I like the point either. We don't have that
> notation
> > on
> > PostgreSQL. I think I would prefer something like
> "Retrieving
> > details on
> > table schema.table" and not say the database.
> Because if you
> > add the
> > database, someone will probably want also the
> server. It may
> > not be
> > usefull to you, but it'll come at some point. And
> that's quite
> > a lot of
> > informations.
> >
> > I agree.
> >
> >
> >
> > Probably we could add some status boxes in the
> status bar. For
> > exemple,
> > a box with a "user(at)database (server)" (with a lock
> icon if you
> > use SSL
> > for example. Just a thought.
> >
> >
> >
> > I liked the idea!
> >
> > We could add status boxes in front of the information
> "Retrieving
> > details ...".
> >
> > For example, suppose that is the status bar:
> >
> > With 3 status boxes:
> >
> > || "Retrieving details on schema.table" || user(at)database ||
> server ||
> >
> > or with 2 status boxes:
> >
> > || "Retrieving details on schema.table" || user(at)database
> ( server )
> > ||
> >
> >
>
> I think I like the second one better, but this is just my
> opinion.
>
>
> Aside from it being a needless amount of information to clutter the
> display with, I can pretty much guarantee you won't be able to figure
> out a clean way of sizing the panels to accomodate all that data
> without truncating one or more of them for some selected objects.
>

Are we talking about the same thing? I'm not suggesting to add a panel.
I'm suggesting to add another box in the status bar (wxStatusBar
object). It won't take any more space than before.

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