Re: More information about the selected objects

On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 20:48 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> On Saturday, July 14, 2012, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> The bar won't, but the text in it will.
>

Yes, and? I don't see how that could be much of a problem.

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