Re: Usability improvment ideas

On 05/16/2011 09:57 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
>> Le 05/13/2011 06:03 PM, Dave Page a écrit :
>>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Belbin, Peter <Peter.Belbin@paetec.com> wrote:
>>>> Just an observation..... :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With the 1.14 stream of pgadmin3, I notice that the dialog for creation of columns moves the type to a different
tabthan the name, requiring much more work to create the columns.
 
>>>
>>> That does seem like a usability regression Guillaume. Can you look at
>>> that please?
>>
>> Yeah, but it means we'll lose the consistency. I know it doesn't feel
>> right, but if we allow the type to be on the first tab, we'll get lots
>> of request for that kind of thing for $object.
> 
> I'm normally the first guy to bleat about consistency, but this really
> does feel like a big regression in usability to me - this is one of
> the few (the only?) dialog that people are likely to open over and
> over again when creating another object. We already know that is
> cumbersome (that's why there's a complete redesign of the table
> dialogue on the TODO) - this will make it worse.
> 

Done. Actually, I had to move three fields (datatype, length, and
precision).


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