Re: [PATCH] Add a menu option for disabling restoration of previous environment on reconnect

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Kaarel Moppel <kaarel(dot)moppel(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Ok can understand that, thanks for the explanation Dave.
>
> Btw, talking about what users need and use - the only sure way to get a
> glimpse in there would be to add some kind of voluntary statistics
> collection to improve the program, similar to what many bigger projects like
> Firefox do. Currently to me it seems that though the name refers to database
> administration, people mostly only use it for just quering, and when looking
> at the TODO list I see a lot of admin features in planning and not so many
> quering UX improvements, so there's a discrepancy there in my opinion. Have
> there been any such ideas moving around or is it even technically possible
> (with reasonable amount of work) from framework side?

It's possible, and it's something I've thought about doing on a number
of occasions, but haven't had the time to clear all the other issues
above it on my priority list. To be honest, it's unlikely to get done
until pgAdmin 4 I suspect.

> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Kaarel Moppel <kaarel(dot)moppel(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>> > Oh indeed, missed the attachment somehow, sorry about that.
>> >
>> > And yes, there's an option already for that. But its on the 'advanced'
>> > tab
>> > with the default being "on" (changing this to "off" wouldn't probably be
>> > nice now) meaning couple of extra clicks which in case of dozens of
>> > servers
>> > gets quickly quite annoying.
>>
>> Use sed on your config file to bulk-disable that option then. I don't
>> see a need to complicate the code with this (and potentially follow-on
>> options to do the same for other settings) for something that has been
>> requested once in 10+ years and is trivial to work around.
>>
>> I know that sounds harsh, but we have to consider long term
>> maintainability of the code, and complexity of the UI for the user.
>> Yours is just one checkbox (well, two if we count your folding
>> change), but we've had lots of such requests over the years. We can
>> really only add those for which there is a clear need, or high demand.
>>
>> > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Guillaume Lelarge
>> >> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 09:59 +0530, Ashesh Vashi wrote:
>> >> >> Did you forget to attach the patch?
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > And isn't this already handled in the server's property?
>> >>
>> >> Yes, it is.
>> >>
>> >> >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Kaarel Moppel
>> >> >> <kaarel(dot)moppel(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > Checkbox resides under "Options-> Browser -> UI misc".
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > NB! didn't add the embed-xrc generated xrcDialogs.cpp class due to
>> >> >> > verbosity, so it needs to executed by the code maintainer.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >
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