Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

Hi Dave

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 2:46 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 7:23 AM Pramod Ahire <
> pramod(dot)ahire(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Hi Dave,
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>> Thank you for comments ! I had described points below. Please do let me
>> know if anything missing.
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>> *From: *Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
>> *Date: *Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 10:26 PM
>> *To: *Pramod Ahire <pramod(dot)ahire(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
>> *Cc: *pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>> *Subject: *Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles
>>
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>>
>> Hi
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>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:48 PM Pramod Ahire <
>> pramod(dot)ahire(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Hi Team,
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>> Please find the attached designs & patch that contains complete
>> functionality except below to do for quick search.
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>> To Do:
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>> - Unit test cases are not that sufficient to cover complete code, but
>> will be working in background to cover up those one
>> - In pgadmin, for disabled menu items we need to add info that will
>> describe why menu has disabled & how it will be enabled. Either another way
>> to enable all of them & show respective reason in popup that menu is
>> disabled for.
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>> Please do let me know if I missed anything or suggestion of yours.
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>> Looks very good. I haven't done an extensive code review/test, but two
>> things spring to mind immediately:
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>> 1) I think the search box should be the top item on the Help menu. I do
>> not think it should be on the far end of the menu bar, as it looks too much
>> like it will search for data (think of search on a website).
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>> - As we are showing menu items as well in search results, it can be
>> redundant for end user & increase duplications of menu items. Please advise
>> your thoughts on this.
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> The search box could be on the Help menu, with results shown in a sub-menu
> under it.
>
> Another more simple option would be to move the search icon to be directly
> after the Help menu (which would hint that it's related to the menus), but
> I'm also concerned about the number of items on the top menu - we're
> getting to the point that 'common' window sizes would show the hamburger
> menu by default.
>

I personally feel we should not add the search box on the Help menu, it
should be kept separate with a placeholder indicating what is it for. We
can move the search icon after the Help menu.

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>> 2) Do we need another loading icon? Surely there's one in the source tree
>> already that we can use?
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>> - As we are loading help articles count in background, so I have added
>> background loading icon to show near to count of results. Our existing icon
>> is of blue & white circle combination, which will be more useful to show
>> foreground loading.
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> Hmm, OK.
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>> Please do let me know your valuable inputs on this.
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>> *Pramod Ahire*
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