Re: [pgAdmin4][Patch]: Allow user to choose background colour for server

From: Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Ashesh Vashi <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [pgAdmin4][Patch]: Allow user to choose background colour for server
Date: 2017-11-15 12:15:33
Message-ID: CAKKotZRjnmr6BMM=8eQiU_vUX7K4-AZz+g1zuwDSJ_9dO2uqLg@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

Apologies but please find updated patch. Earlier I forgot to add copyright
information in migration file.

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala <
murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please find updated patch.​
>
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Ashesh Vashi <
>> ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala <
>>> murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Ashesh Vashi <
>>>> ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Murtuza,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala <
>>>>> murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PFA new patch.
>>>>>>
>>>>> If I have reviewed correctly, the current patch allows to select the
>>>>> colour for background color for server, and its children.
>>>>> I believe - we should allow to select text color too for better
>>>>> readability.
>>>>>
>>>>> ​Yes Ashesh, After our discussion I tried that but with all the
>>>> different colours in browser tree it looks cartoonish.
>>>>
>>> I am not sure - what looked like cartoonish to you (totally depend on
>>> the color choices made by the users). :-)
>>>
>>> If I choose any dark color as background color, text in nodes won't be
>>> clear to the user, and that will make the tree nodes completely unusable.
>>> If we allow to choose the foreground/text color, those dark colors will
>>> become usable by choosing suitable light color as text colors.
>>>
>>> I don't want to make any decision here, just asking for opinions from
>>> others.
>>>
>>> So - Again ball is back in Dave's courtyard :-).
>>>
>>
>> pgAdmin 3 didn't allow selection of the foreground colour, and I don't
>> recall anyone ever asking for it. It's clearly up to the user to not select
>> colours that won't work.
>>
>> I'm fine with just setting the background colour to satisfy this
>> requirement, though if it's trivial to do, I have no objection to allowing
>> changes to the foreground colour.
>>
>> --
>> Dave Page
>> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
>> Twitter: @pgsnake
>>
>> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>>
>
>

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