[Qgis-developer] PostGIS dialogue usability/annoyance

[Jochen Topf]

If you tell me how to open a ticket without getting another ID, I would
do it.

I can't open a ticket as anonymous user, I need some kind of ID. I
don't have that ID and I can't track all the IDs for all the programs I
want to contribute bug reports to.

Jochen

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:02:59AM +0100, Düster Horst wrote:
> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:02:59 +0100
> From: Düster Horst <Horst.Duester at bd.so.ch>
> To: Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org>, qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: AW: [Qgis-developer] PostGIS dialogue usability/annoyance
> 
> Jochen 
>  
> Please open a ticket for this issue. 
>  
> Regards 
> Horst 
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> ----- Originalnachricht ----- 
> Von: Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> 
> Gesendet: Mit, 3.12.2008 08:53 
> An: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org 
> Betreff: [Qgis-developer] PostGIS dialogue usability/annoyance 
>  
> This is with qgis 1.0.0-Kore-preview2: 
>  
> * Open "Add PostGIS layer" dialogue 
> * Connect to some database 
>  
> If you now double click on a table the SQL dialogue opens, you add 
> something there and close the dialogue. You table is selected, everything 
> is ok. 
>  
> But now you decide that you want to change the sql statement, you double 
> click the table again, the dialogue opens, you edit it and close it. 
>  
> Now your table is not selected any more. You have to find it again and 
> select it before you close the "Add PostGIS layer" dialogue. 
>  
> So the problem here is that the first click of a double click in the 
> "Add PostGIS layer" dialogue changes the select status of a table just 
> like a normal click would. 
>  
> I think the behaviour should be different: Double click should open the 
> SQL dialogue and after closing it the table should *always* be selected. 
> Because thats what you want almost all the time. (Why would you bother 
> adding an SQL WHERE clause when you don't want to import the table as a 
> new layer.) 
>  
> also: it is not obvious that you can open the SQL dialogue with a double 
> click. I think there should be another way to open the dialogue, the 
> double click should only be a shortcut. 
>  
> also: can we do something about the default width of the columns in the 
> "Add PostGIS layer" dialogue? My table names tend to be wider than would 
> fit and "Geometry column" is smaller normally. Do we need the icons and 
> the text in the "Type" column? Maybe the columns could widen themselves 
> automatically according to the content? 
>  
> Jochen 
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