Re: Keyboard shortcut challenges

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 11:45 AM Aditya Toshniwal <
aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Hackers,
>
> I'm planning to change the keyboard shortcuts to allow the user to select
> "Cmd" instead of "Ctrl". As I mentioned above, only one of them could be
> selected to allow working on other OS's. On other OS like windows, "Ctrl"
> and "Cmd" will be treated the same, "Cmd" will be hidden and "Option" will
> change on "Alt".
> I also made some UI improvements like moving shift, ctrl, alt keys before
> the key input and making it more compact.
> Please let me know your thoughts.
>
> New UI:
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Old UI:
> [image: image.png]
>

Looks good to me.

>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:45 AM Aditya Toshniwal <
> aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Yogesh,
>>
>> The difference between other editors and pgAdmin is that pgAdmin can run
>> on the web. Which means, a pgAdmin server hosted on linux can be opened on
>> a Mac machine browser.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 10:49 AM Yogesh Mahajan <
>> yogesh(dot)mahajan(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Aditya,
>>>
>>> What is the behaviour of the other editors with respect to Meta Key? If
>>> they do not treat Meta key differently, then we shouldn't.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yogesh Mahajan
>>> EnterpriseDB
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 4:44 PM Aditya Toshniwal <
>>> aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Just came to my mind - We could add one more checkbox - "Is Meta?" for
>>>> Ctrl. That way - users will have more control.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 4:26 PM Aditya Toshniwal <
>>>> aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Hackers,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm working on removing the usage of Access Keys(which varies based on
>>>>> OS and Browser combination) for keyboard shortcuts and instead use
>>>>> shortcuts similar to all other IDEs.
>>>>> The challenge here is OS. MacOS has an extra key - Meta, which pgAdmin
>>>>> doesn't take as part of keyboard shortcut currently. In fact, Mac can take
>>>>> Ctrl separately.
>>>>> pgAdmin can run as a web app so it's even more difficult. It is not
>>>>> possible to have multiple shortcuts based on the OS of the browser.
>>>>> I suggest we consider Ctrl as Meta when running on a Mac.
>>>>> Please let me know what you think.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [image: image.png]
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Aditya Toshniwal
>>>>> pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
>>>>> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
>>>>> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Aditya Toshniwal
>>>> pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
>>>> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
>>>> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Aditya Toshniwal
>> pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
>> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
>> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Aditya Toshniwal
> pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>