Hi On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:31 AM, Anthony DeBarros <adebar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, Dave, > > I've been testing this on macOS High Sierra for a few days. Overall, very > positive feedback. The app seems fast, and I've experience no glitches yet. > Great, thanks for testing. > > One minor point: > > In the desktop app, hovering the mouse over a cell of type "text" will > show a tool tip with all text in that cell (e.g. the overflow that's not > visible). That's missing in the web app. > It works for me in Chrome (on Sierra). What browser are you using? > > Aside from that, I'm not seeing anything here of concern. Nice job. > > Anthony > > > On January 23, 2018 at 9:48:43 AM, Dave Page (dp...@pgadmin.org) wrote: > > All, > > As you may know, the most troublesome part of pgAdmin 4 has been the > desktop runtime application, which has relied on QtWebKit and QtWebEngine > (of various origins and versions) to render the UI as part of the Qt > framework. > > This has caused performance issues, rendering issues with remote desktop > sessions, keyboard navigation issues and more. It probably accounts for 25% > or more of the bugs reports we deal with. > > Unfortunately, whilst there are alternatives to Qt for this purpose, none > that we've found are mature enough for our purposes, and would require a > significant amount of effort to add the features we would need to support > pgAdmin. > > I've therefore been experimenting with another approach in which pgAdmin > is rendered in a regular web browser when running in desktop mode. Like > some other similar applications, a server process is launched and lives in > the system tray, from where it can be shutdown at any time, or new windows > opened. When it is first started, it will launch a browser window to render > pgAdmin automatically. If additional instances are launched, the previously > running instance will be re-used to avoid wasting resources. > > This is a proof of concept at the moment, for which I would appreciate any > feedback. Windows and Mac builds can be found here: > > https://developer.pgadmin.org/~dpage/runtime-revamp/ > > and the GIT branch can be found here: > > https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgadmin4.git;a= > shortlog;h=refs/heads/runtime-revamp > > Thanks! > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > > -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
