Re: Opening pgAdmin 4 in a new browser window as an alternativeuser flow

Thanks for sharing the plans for electron.

In my feature suggestion for a new window, I am not referring to a new window using electron, but instead I meant a new
windowin the existing web browser. 

I am unfamiliar with the effort needed for electron integration. But I suspect that opening a new window in an existing
webbrowser should be much more easily achievable. 

Wdyt?

--Luther




On Friday, August 9, 2019, 12:31:56 PM GMT+8, Ashesh Vashi <ashesh.vashi@enterprisedb.com> wrote:






On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:57 AM Luther Goh Lu Feng <elfgoh@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion!. That is very useful, and would work for me as a personal custom configuration.
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> However, I have read some complaints in the mailing list about how pgAdmin 4 opens a web page in a new tab, unlike
pgAdmin3.I do wonder if changing the default behaviour to open in a new window would possibly address those complaints,
makeit more similar to pgAdmin 3 
We would love to have a separate window for pgAdmin 4, hence - we're already working on the POC (using electron), and
itis a side line project, and getting delayed due to limited resources working on the pgAdmin 4. 

I would like to invite other python/electron developers to help us evolving the project in correct direction.

-- Thanks, Ashesh
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> As an aside, is there a generic command that does the default browser in a new window? I am using firefox now and
haveswitched to and fro from Chrome. It would be convenient if there is a single command that applies for both
browsers! 
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> --Luther
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> On Friday, August 9, 2019, 12:17:57 PM GMT+8, Khushboo Vashi <khushboo.vashi@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 11:18 PM Luther Goh Lu Feng <elfgoh@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The current default behaviour of pgAdmin4 is to load a webpage in a new default browser tab, on the extreme right of
alltabs. I find that less than ideal in the scenario where I have a large number of tabs in firefox, eg, 50, and I will
beabruptly brought to that tab when pgAdmin 4 loads 
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>> I would like to suggest an alternative user flow, where the pgAdmin loads in a new window. This could be an option,
thatcould be toggled on and off with a checkbox. I would even go as far to suspect that this may be more welcomed as
thedefault behaviour 
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> pgAdmin configuration window provides the way to set the browser options. You can set the appropriate command for
yourbrowser to always open pgAdmin in the new window. 
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> Right click on the pgAdmin 4 taskbar icon (elephant icon) > Select Configure > Set the command for the "Browser
Command"option. 
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> I have attached the Chrome configuration for the new window for your reference.
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> Thanks,
> Khushboo
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>> Wdyt?
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>> --Luther
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