Bug #60624 The "Query1, Query2..." tabs are not visually lined up with their results

• Submitted: 24 Mar 2011 16:35
• Modified: 17 Nov 2011 7:14
• Reporter: Tiger O
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Workbench: SQL Editor
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.2.33 CE
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[24 Mar 2011 16:35] Tiger O

Description:
The "Query1, Query2..." tabs and their respective result tabs are not lined up, causing visual confusion and making this tool hard to use.  Also, why make it look like the queries have their own tab and the results have their own tab, and when click on one query, it syncs to its respective result tab?  Wouldn't it easier to give only one tab instead of giving the illusion that queries and their results are separate and causing extraneous thought process to the user?  This UI is very poorly designed and unintuitive.

Not only the query and results tabs separate, they are NOT lined up!  Three unrelated tabs are jammed to the left of the result tabs - "Overview", "Output" and "Snippets", pushing all the result tabs to the right, further confusing the visual layout.

How to repeat:
See Description.

Suggested fix:
1. Move the 3 tabs "Overview", "Output" and "Snippets" to the bottom;
2. Get rid of the "Results" tabs altogether;
3. Move the "Query1, Query2..." tabs down to where the "Results" tabs used to be, so clicking on a tab will show the query statement now on top and results below;

Here is a very rough screen shot:
http://www.ragingcat.com/pics/workbench.jpg

Thanks!

[17 Nov 2011 7:14] Philip Olson

Fixed as of 5.2.36:

+        The query and associated results are no longer displayed in
+        separate tabs, but they are now viewable within a single
+        interface.