On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:44 PM Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:38 PM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:03 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote: >> >> On 3/26/20 9:51 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> > >> >> I don't see how any of the above, including Dave's patch, make things >> >> worse. Again I was just suggesting on how to display the credentials, >> >> not adding more steps to downloading the mbox. >> > >> > Well, Daves patch doesn't cover 2 out of 3 cases, that's a start :) > > > I'm not clear what cases you're referring to, even after re-reading the thread.
The downloading of thread mailboxes, and the viewing of raw messages. It was in my first response :)
>> > And it makes it worse in that it goes in the very most "valuable >> > space" on the screen, for something that's focused on a tiny portion >> > of our users. >> > >> > I'm certainly not against making the information better, I'm just not >> > sure that's the best way. >> >> We could move it to the bottom of the pages. Or add it to this page[1] >> and call it a day. > > > Either would largely guarantee that users don't see it. > > I was going to suggest putting a help icon with popup hint on click next to the table header for the column, but then I noticed we don't actually have column headers.
We could put it just to the right of the download link though? There seems to be enough space for that with a large margin at least on desktops.
We could. I was hoping for a way to avoid putting it on every row - obviously technically we can do that, but it might look weird.