Re: [gnome-db] Database Name Missing in the New Data Source Wizard

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 15:20 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:19 -0500, Daniel Espinosa wrote:
> > Testing Version 1.1.6
> > 
> > If you try to create a new Data Source, the Wizar
> > don't ask you for the Data Base Name, and as user
> > normaly prefer don't to fill the parameters, becouse I
> > think it for advanced users.
> > 
> > I think the first step to fill up the minimum
> > information to access a data source (supouse the so
> > called advanced options are defaults) in the Wizard
> > 'must' be there.
> > 
> > This 'advanced options' are in english, and a spanish
> > peaple normaly don't take care about it.
> > 
> > In my case, I create a new data source and don't take
> > care about this options, and I can't connect becouse I
> > don't fill up the database name (it's basic for
> > conecting).
> > 
> > This is just a point of view from an end user.
> > 
> I've been thinking on the new data source dialog, and I think a good way
> of simplifying that dialog would be to extend the information returned
> by the providers' get_connection_params method. Instead of returning
> just a string, which is what they do right now, they could return a list
> of structures, each one containing:
> 	- the name of the argument to be used in the connection string
> 	- a short description, to be used in the new DSN dialog
> 	- the type of the value
> 	- whether it's required or not.
> 
> With this, the dialog can have a more descriptive look.
>
ok, this is now done in CVS HEAD. I've only done the changes needed for
the providers to return more descriptive information about each
argument. I've changed only a little bit the druid's GUI to display more
descriptive messages for the arguments.

What is missing is the changes for dealing with the arguments' types.
That is, show a checkbox when it's a boolean, check for correctness when
it's a number, etc.

If anyone wants to work on that, please go ahead and we'll include it in
the soon-to-be-released 1.2. If not, I'll do it myself after 1.2
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>