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

From: Shirley Wang <swang(at)pivotal(dot)io>
To: Anthony DeBarros <adebarros(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Eckhardt <reckhardt(at)pivotal(dot)io>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Design Update] Visual design of query editor and results table
Date: 2017-04-06 15:27:31
Message-ID: CAPG3WN5vfOY2OQKHt9kb0d2OrszoCtw=ZdREgwef4Dzc4PpD-g@mail.gmail.com
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Ok! Right justified it is

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:22 AM Anthony DeBarros <adebarros(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> Right justifying makes it substantially easier to understand magnitude and
> makes it easier to get decimal alignment.
>
> -- Rob
>
>
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