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Bug 151466

Summary: Description "url (user on SCHEMA)" is unhelpful
Product: db Reporter: entonio <entonio>
Component: CodeAssignee: David Vancouvering <davidvc>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: blocker CC: romanmostyka
Priority: P2    
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 152816    
Attachments: Notice how the oracle connextions are barely indistinguishable (completely, in the case of the two :dev11)

Description entonio 2008-10-27 13:53:56 UTC
Hi,
The database explorer is a very nice tool, but I have a problem with the connection listing: each connection is listed
as "url [user on SCHEMA]" and this makes it hard to read, since 1) sorting is done by url, which isn't usually helpful,
and more grievous 2) the url takes up a lot of space and at least for me that means the pane must have a lot more width
than necessary or convenient just to be able to see what user this is; and as you know, user/schema is usually the most
important information, so I think it should come first. In my case, for instance, I have a lot of connections which
differ only in user/schema (well, the derby connections that come with nb are almost as good an example), which means I
can't distinguish them at all using my normal width for the services pane (I'll attach an example image).

I think this should be easy to solve, just make the description "user on SCHEMA (url)" or some variant which makes sure
the user is presented first. As it is, it's a usability fault, imo. Thanks.
Comment 1 entonio 2008-10-27 13:58:38 UTC
Created attachment 72684 [details]
Notice how the oracle connextions are barely indistinguishable (completely, in the case of the two :dev11)
Comment 2 Jiri Skrivanek 2009-09-08 14:07:46 UTC

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 144112 ***