Re: Pgadmin4: preference to not ask to save query on close

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Doug Easterbrook <doug(at)artsman(dot)com>
Cc: pgAdmin Support <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pgadmin4: preference to not ask to save query on close
Date: 2016-11-17 09:17:22
Message-ID: CA+OCxowK6oVEJuGFcengMwZXEVG6mah+z3GGf8knUE+HdNkY3g@mail.gmail.com
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Hi

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Doug Easterbrook <doug(at)artsman(dot)com> wrote:
> hi again dave.
>
> the tabs for the queries are great.. it is a little painful when you have a
> few of them open and then just want to close them all — because you get
> asked if you want to discard it.
>
> there are two thoughts here.
>
> first, I might suggest that the message should say ‘do you want to SAVE’ it
> and that the buttons say ‘SAVE’ and ‘NO’.
>
> traditionally, such messages suggest save … and a yes answer makes me think
> I want to save it, so I keep hitting no. I’m getting hit by culturally
> inbred messages from my past.

If memory serves, we followed the way pgAdmin 3 does that. It's not an
unreasonable change though: https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/1972

> I also would like to ask for a preference not to be bothered and to just
> close the query window without saving. Thats mostly what we do.

https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/1973

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