Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:15 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:43 AM Akshay Joshi <
> akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Hi Dave
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>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 2:46 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
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>>> 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,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - 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.
>>>
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>> 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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> What is your reasoning? It is, after all, specifically designed to help
> people.
>

OK, I have seen a couple of applications where the search box is inside
the Help menu, agree with your point.

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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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm, OK.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please do let me know your valuable inputs on this.
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>>>>
>>>> *Pramod Ahire*
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>>>> *Software Engineer*
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>> *Akshay Joshi*
>> *pgAdmin Hacker | Principal Software Architect*
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