Re: [pgAdmin4][Patch]: Adding connection status in Query tool

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala <
murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Yes, I agree, it's a good idea to have it optional, I'll work on it and
> send updated patch.
> by the way what should be default behaviour? Should we make it disabled by
> default?
>

No - users probably won't find it then. I wonder if we should make the
default poll interval a couple of seconds (or more) though.

>
>
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Ashesh Vashi <
> ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala <
>>> murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dave,
>>>>
>>>> PFA updated patch.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala <
>>>>> murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Dave,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PFA updated patch,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:44 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala <
>>>>>>> murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> PFA updated patch based on new design suggested by Chethana.
>>>>>>>> The patch also includes some misc fixes related to object
>>>>>>>> validation.
>>>>>>>> RM#2475
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This seems much nicer, but I still think there are some tweaks to
>>>>>>> make:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) If I open a query tool, and then stop the application server, the
>>>>>>> icon is updated to show the broken connection. However, unless I execute a
>>>>>>> query in the query tool before the server is shut down, the connection
>>>>>>> status won't recover when the server is restarted. If I do run a query
>>>>>>> first (SELECT 1; will do), then the connection status will recover.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have logged​
>>>>>> ​
>>>>>> https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/2983
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2) I think the "connected" icon should be in $primary-blue
>>>>>>> (#2c76b4). The green is ugly and not overly easy to read. It's also
>>>>>>> distracting as it catches the eye, which the default, non-error state
>>>>>>> should not do.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> ​Fixed​
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Much better.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3) I'm not overly happy with the the status text popover. After some
>>>>>>> thought, I think it's because there are no visual clues that you should
>>>>>>> click on the icon to see it - and Karen seems to be of a similar opinion.
>>>>>>> Can we put a small marker there, perhaps a triangle on the bottom-right,
>>>>>>> like you get on a spreadsheet cell if you add a comment/note? We should
>>>>>>> also have a hotkey and I guess a tooltip, e.g. "Connection status
>>>>>>> Ctrl+Alt+S" or similar.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> ​Fixed​
>>>>>> , added accesskey *'T'* for TX status tooltip shortcut as 'S' is
>>>>>> already taken for Save file option
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm - having seen it, I don't think the marker helps us.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you remove it, and fix the tooltip (which doesn't seem to work)?
>>>>> If we always have the tooltip say "Connection status Ctrl+Alt+T" (or
>>>>> whatever is appropriate for the platform/browser), then that should give
>>>>> the user enough hint to click.
>>>>>
>>>> ​
>>>> Fixed​.
>>>> I have removed the marker & added tooltip instead but it is not
>>>> possible to add specific shortcut keys in tooltip because accesskey may
>>>> vary depending on OS & browser.
>>>> ​Ref: ​
>>>> https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_accesskey.asp
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's better - though I think the tool tip is better as something like:
>>>
>>> Connection status (click for details) (<accesskey>+T)
>>>
>>> I'm still not overly happy with all the polling that's going on though.
>>> It's a lot of requests, especially with multiple QTs open. I think we need
>>> to be able to disable the feature entirely through a switch in the
>>> Preferences. In that case, no icon would be shown, and polling would be
>>> disabled - i.e. everything would be as it is now.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>> +1
>>
>> -- Thanks, Ashesh
>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dave Page
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>

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