Re: Minor UI issues for Server Properties dialog box

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> Le 16/01/2011 09:32, Dave Page a écrit :
>> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>>> Le 15/01/2011 23:58, Josh Berkus a écrit :
>>>> Nothing showstopping, but:
>>>>
>>>> 1) After you make changes in the Server Properties dialog, it gives you
>>>> the fairly useless message that "Some changes will not take effect until
>>>> the next time pgAdmin connects to the server".  The reason this message
>>>> is useless (and annoying) is that pgAdmin prevents you from changing
>>>> those fields unless you are disconnected from the server in the first place.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, I don't like it either. Need to be fixed.
>>
>> Actually, it is correct; you can tweak the DB Restriction, but it
>> needs a full refresh to take effect. That said, it is inconsistent
>> from other settings.
>>
>>
>
> I commited a patch that simply displays the message only when the user
> is connected to the server.
>
> Now, what I would like to know is if the other settings should stay
> disabled? why only some of them are disabled (or enabled)? shouldn't we
> just make them all enabled?

I'd be inclined to make them all disabled.

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