MySQL Bugs: #52443: choosing config file section is useless

Bug #52443	choosing config file section is useless
Submitted:	29 Mar 2010 15:35	Modified:	19 Apr 2010 16:01
Reporter:	Mario Beck	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench: Administration	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.2.16 Rev 5249	OS:	Any
Assigned to:	Alfredo Kojima	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	configuration, section

Description:
In Admin, configuration tab there is a drop-down list at the bottom to choose the section of the config file. Options are "client", "mysql" and "mysqld".
But if I select "client" it does not show, which options are set in the client section. The screen still shows the mysqld options. And if I chance TCP port for example, the change is documented as
Changed: [client] port=3307
But the change is not applied to the client section but to the mysqld section.
So the drop down list only confuses the user and has no meaning.

How to repeat:
Connect to a server, go to admin, Configuration tab. Choose different sections on the bottom of the window. Nothing will happen. If you change a parameter it will always be changed in the mysqld section.

Suggested fix:
Either add all other sections to the parameter editing window or delete the drop down list.

Thank you for the bug report.

Replaced the combo with a read-only text field

this has been switched to a readonly control just to show the section name.
fixed in repository

An entry has been added to the 5.2.19 changelog:

In the Configuration tab of the Administrator, the listbox showing the section in the configuration file has been changed to a read-only control.