Re: Disabled or Not applicable Tabs design

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 at 09:38, Aditya Toshniwal <
aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Hackers,
>
> I've been working on a new feature to restore a plain SQL using the
> pgAdmin restore dialog. Internally, it will select pg_restore or psql based
> on the format.
>
> Now, when restoring plain format the tabs like Data Options, Query Options
> are not applicable. So instead of going and disabling all the fields under
> these tabs, I think we can simply disable the complete tab.
>
> I've come up with the following UI design for the disabled tabs. The tabs
> will enable/disable based on the format selected.
>
> Please share your feedback on this.
>
>
> [image: image.png]
>

Normally when something is disabled, it is simply greyed out and made to
not respond to input. Why not do the same here instead of designing a new
way of indicating disabled state?

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