On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 17:07 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> >>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> >>>> Hi!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Something that's annoyed me for a long time is that all fields are
>> >>>> left-aligned in the query grid. It's a lot easier to read numeric
>> >>>> fields when they are right-justified.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Attached patch right-justifies fields that are numeric.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Two questions:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> 1) does this seem like a reasonable way of doing it?
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes.
>> >>>
>> >>>> 2) do we want to always do this (like this patch), or do we need to
>> >>>> create a setting for it?
>> >>>
>> >>> I don't think there's a great need for a setting, though, we do have
>> >>> lots of room for them now, so maybe it wouldn't hurt to avoid annoying
>> >>> users that like the old way.
>> >>
>> >> We have room, but adding settings for the sake of settings doesn't
>> >> exactly contribute to usability...
>> >
>> > It does if there's a valid use case for either behaviour.
>>
>> Yes, but then it's not for the sake of settings, then it's for the
>> sake of it being a reasonable usecase. I'm not convinced there is
>> one...
>>
>
> Not convinced we need a setting now. And it would be really easy to add
> one after a complaint.
>
>> >> How about we do it without the setting, and then we can add the
>> >> setting if somebody complains? ;)
>> >>
>> >> (Oh, and I don't suppose i can sneak this into 1.16, can I? :P)
>> >
>> > Err, no. Sorry.
>>
>> :)
>>
>
> Not sure when Dave wants to branch 1.16, but sometime soon would be a
> good idea. There are already interesting things to add. I won't complain
> if it doesn't come right away as I really don't have time for pgAdmin
> right now. Completely overbooked.
I've now applied this to the newly stamped 1.17-master.
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