Re: pgAdmin III Bugs/Feature Requests

On Friday 08 August 2003 12:01, you wrote:
> It's rumoured that Mark A. Taff once said:
> > First off, thank you Dave, et. al. for continuing your work and
>
> You're welcome.
>
> > Font name and size settings in help: bug reporting: options dialog are
> > not saved between uses
>
> I'll have to check that.
>
> > HTML help/documentation broswer does not allow setting/saving font
> > name/sizes
>
> The browser is not written by us unfortunately, but by the wxWindows
> people. I don't think we can easily change it's settings.

Could we perhaps then allow a custom doc browser? Konqi can do a fine job, if
I could tell it to open all docs with Konqi instead of the wxWindows browser.

>
> > Generally speaking, all controls on all dialog boxes are too small, and
> > fonts are too big, thus rendering it very difficult to guess what the
> > control is for, or in some cases, making it impossible to use a
> > control at all.
>
> That sound's like the metrics on your system are a little odd. The
> controls are generally sized to take the text from any of the languages we
> support (in theory). I assume you're using English, which should fit fine.
> Any chance of a screen shot?

Certainly. However, I don't have web-publishing capabilities right now, so I
will send them directly to anyone who wants them (yours are on the way,
Dave).

>
> > Fonts and sizes used in treeview and listview cannot be set.
>
> Again, I'll have to check when I have the source to hand (I'm on my
> daughter's PC right now).
>
> > File->Options->Query->Font... settings are not saved until pgAdmin is
> > closed
>
> No, most settings are not saved until program close. I intend to tidy that
> up.

Cool. Thanks.

>
> > Main toolbar icons are too large
>
> They should be the standard size for your window manager - can you get a
> screen shot please.
>
> > In data grid, double-clicking column header separator should expand
> > column width to auto-fit column contents, don't you think?
>
> Yes, eventually it should. I would also like sorting by clicking on the
> column headers in some cases.
>
> > In the treeview, when I have `Tables` highlighted, then right-click on
> > `Views`, the popup menus should allow me to make a new View, not a
> > table. Alternately, expand the `New Object` submenu to offer items
> > for all main objects (aggregates through views).
>
> That is the intended behaviour. You click a view (left or right) and
> that's what it tries to create.

Yes, I agree, but that's my point, it _doesn't_. :o I first need to highlight
the item and then right click to bring up the popup menu, when simply
right-clicking (regardless of whether it was highlighted or not) it out to
do, yes?

>
> > Most of these issues likely stem from the fact I am working at 1280 x
> > 1024 on a 19" monitor.
>
> I run 1600 x 1280 on a 21" monitor!

Hmmm....Am I being a wimp? Maybe I should increase my resolution....:)

FYI, I am using wxGTK(Windows) version 2.4. I'll have to compile my own if I
want 2.5.

Regards,
Mark
>
> Regards, Dave
>
>
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