Re: [Design Update] Visual design of query editor and results table

Agreed on all the responses thus far. The ability to distinguish values
ranging from thousands to tens of thousands to millions, etc., is
substantially harder if numbers are left-justified.

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Robert Eckhardt <reckhardt(at)pivotal(dot)io>
wrote:

> > 3. right-justified numbers come from precedents like excel or other
>> > spreadsheet type tools and muddles the distinction between editable and
>> > un-editable tables (at least data output in from query results is
>> > un-editable, I know right clicking on a table in the browser to "view
>> ...
>> > data/rows" outputs an editable table)
>>
>> When we first released pgAdmin 4 we forgot to right-justify numbers.
>> Users complained. Lots. They need to stay right justified.
>>
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> Right justifying makes it substantially easier to understand magnitude and
> makes it easier to get decimal alignment.
>
> -- Rob
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