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@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@database ||
>         >         server ||
>         >         >
>         >         > or with 2 status boxes:
>         >         >
>         >         > || "Retrieving details on schema.table" ||
>         user@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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