[Kexi-devel] KDE (vs GNOME) - Use Case

[Gianni Rossi]

On 11/13/05, Jarosław Staniek <js at iidea.pl> wrote:
>
> Cornelius Schumacher said the following, On 2005-11-14 00:52:
>
> > On Monday 14 November 2005 00:26, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> >
> >>-Since certain database backends may require latin1 identifiers, these
> are
> >>created implicity for level 1 (user do not know about this).
> >
> >
> > Why would any user want to explitcitly give identifiers when they can be
> > created implicitly?
>
> See my answer to Robert Knight for more info.
>
> > This doesn't sound like a good reason for user levels,
> > but as a good reason to remove some complexity from the user interface.
>
> To fully understand this need, you need to look how database
> tables/queries/
> etc. are named in a real-world database (or data warehouse) applications:
>
> e.g. you can encounter very descriptive names like "Annual report for
> medicines" table name. One user may want to use this long the name in SQL
> statements and scripts, other do not want this and want to just put his
> own
> abbreviation. He/she is the developer in this case.
> In the same time simple users should not be even aware of above issue if
> they
> do not want. They most probable wouldn't want that unless they are using
> SQL
> or scripting.
>
> We _cannot_ assume everyone is simple user nor advanced user. I mentioned
> about data warehouses. I don't know about your impressions, but in this
> case I
> encountered cases when I already have predefined latin1 names in one
> linked
> database (ofter only 8 or 12-character long) and just in my master
> database I
> wanted to add descriptive captions that I can then use in GUI and project
> documentation.
>
> Another place power users may want to see real names and not captions by
> default is project navigator ( on the left hand:
> http://kexi-project.org/pics/0.9/data_form_navigator.png ) or table/query
> column names.


Just a question. How would an advanced user "communicate" with a normal
user? For example, one user creates a table using captions, other uses
names, or vice-versa? I'd think that to reduce confusion, BOTH names should
be seen all the time, regardless of user status; though, the capton/name
should be put to a side in smaller print or something. I'm thinking about
the case where there are many tables/queries with simmilar name and an
advanced user is talking to a normal user.
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