Bug #64214 call me all fashioned but you guys destroyed the UI
Submitted: 2 Feb 2012 19:16 Modified: 22 Jan 2013 9:29
Reporter: hernan saab Email Updates:
Status: Won't fix Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.2.37 OS:MacOS
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[2 Feb 2012 19:16] hernan saab 
Description:
Your interface makes it very hard to navigate.
For example, the alter table feature used to be a pop up. Now its a tab forcing me to chose between this view and other views.
The edit table command used to provide a convenience SQL query output that I could then modify. That is also gone.

How to repeat:
For example, the alter table feature used to be a pop up. Now its a tab forcing me to chose between this view and other views.
The edit table command used to provide a convenience SQL query output that I could then modify. That is also gone.

Suggested fix:
Improve your UI to the standards of your older revisions
[2 Feb 2012 19:18] hernan saab 
I think someone out there believes tabs are like bacon. Not everything is better with tabs.
[3 Feb 2012 7:15] Valeriy Kravchuk 
OK, so I consider this a feature request for alter table dialog box, as it was before.
[9 Feb 2012 15:56] Alfredo Kojima 
The Edit table command still lets you edit the query. You just need to drag the splitter down. Or you can just type SELECT by hand to get the query exactly as you want.
[10 Oct 2012 9:05] Jean-Yves Rouffiac 
An old thread I know, but I've just seen it. 

Whilst I appreciate that this is a matter of personal taste, please note that everyone here, inlcuding myself, MUCH prefers the new alter table in a tab to the old-style pop up.

Please do not remove this functionality! - make it an option if you do decide to re-implement the popup.

*imo* the WB devs have done wonders in improving the UI over the last few releases and returning to popups would be a retrograde step.
[10 Oct 2012 9:06] Jean-Yves Rouffiac 
By "everyone here" I mean at my client's offices, not the wider WB community of course :)
[22 Jan 2013 9:29] Mike Lischke 
No action required here. Using tabs instead floating windows was a decision we did by full intent and many users support this. Editing the ALTER SQL is still possible.