Re: [ppa-dev] Plugin requests/thoughts

[Jehan-Guillaume (i. de R. <io...@fr...>]

On 09/05/2011 19:29, Leonardo Sápiras wrote:
>    Hi Karl,
>
>> I'm entirely ignorant of ppa and what plugins would do
>> but wanted to write because I got a request from my users
>> that might be able to be solved with a plugin.
>>
>> The request was to be able to associate hyperlinks with
>> each table appearing in the browse view that reference
>> the table's documentation.  Please let me know
>> if the plugin architecture being considered would allow
>> for such a plugin.
>
> What do you mean about "reference the table's documentation"? Sorry,
> it's not clear for me, could you show some example?
>
> I am working in a new plugin architecture as a project by Google
> Summer of Code. My proposal can be found at
> [http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/New_phpPgAdmin_Plugin_Architecture_GSoC_2011].
>
> In this proposal, there are some things that the new architecture will
> be able to, among them, entries in the action buttons and navigation
> links. If I understood you well, it will able you to create a plugin
> on this architecture. If it won't, I will need to talk to my mentors
> first (Jehan 'ioguix', and Andreas 'ads') before add one more entry in
> this project, but it would might be done after the GSoC :)
>
> Andreas and Jehan, what do you thing about it?

I don't understand this part neither. I need a better understanding 
before being able to answer if this plugin architecture will support it 
out of the box, or if it will be a future enhancement (ie, after the gsoc).

>> In the FYI category I also have another user interface
>> request that I plan on tackling after getting my
>> patch in that redoes the user submitted SQL interface.
>> That is to put a dropdown on the browse screen that
>> displays categories.  Each table would be associated
>> with one or more categories and selecting a category would
>> restrict the tables displayed to the tables associated
>> with the category.  The number of tables within any
>> given schema is growing large enough that it is confusing
>> the users who don't use all the tables.  While it would
>> be possible to put the tables in different schemas this
>> does not allow for the possibility of a single table
>> being relevant to more than one schema -- the category
>> tagging idea would allow a table to appear in more
>> than one category.
>>
>> The idea of displaying only those tables belonging
>> to a given category does not sound plugin-supportable
>> but I thought I'd mention it just in case it was.
>
> Sorry, what do you mean about "In the FYI category"?

FYI == For Your Information

> --
> Atenciosamente
> Leonardo Augusto Sápiras
> [http://www.leonardosapiras.com.br]
>
>
>
> 2011/5/5 Karl O. Pinc<ko...@me...>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm entirely ignorant of ppa and what plugins would do
>> but wanted to write because I got a request from my users
>> that might be able to be solved with a plugin.
>>
>> The request was to be able to associate hyperlinks with
>> each table appearing in the browse view that reference
>> the table's documentation.  Please let me know
>> if the plugin architecture being considered would allow
>> for such a plugin.
>>
>> In the FYI category I also have another user interface
>> request that I plan on tackling after getting my
>> patch in that redoes the user submitted SQL interface.
>> That is to put a dropdown on the browse screen that
>> displays categories.  Each table would be associated
>> with one or more categories and selecting a category would
>> restrict the tables displayed to the tables associated
>> with the category.  The number of tables within any
>> given schema is growing large enough that it is confusing
>> the users who don't use all the tables.  While it would
>> be possible to put the tables in different schemas this
>> does not allow for the possibility of a single table
>> being relevant to more than one schema -- the category
>> tagging idea would allow a table to appear in more
>> than one category.
>>
>> The idea of displaying only those tables belonging
>> to a given category does not sound plugin-supportable
>> but I thought I'd mention it just in case it was.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Karl<ko...@me...>
>> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
>>
>>
>