Hi, On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> All, > > As you know, the 3.0 release is currently on hold as we discovered late > yesterday that the re-vamped desktop runtime will not run on Gnome 3.26 and > later. This is because the GTK project, and later Gnome, have removed > support for the System Tray on which the new runtime relies. > > They have replaced it with a notification mechanism, however this doesn't > really meet our needs as what we want is a place (the tray icon) to attach > a menu to control the pgAdmin server; we don't really use notifications as > such. > > I see a number of possible ways around this: > > 1) Return to the previous runtime. I think this is at best a short-term > solution, as the re-visited Annulen version of the QtWebKit seems to be > getting little attention at the moment, and this would re-introduce many > known bugs caused by WebKit. > > 2) Re-work the current runtime code to remove the tray icon, and utilise > desktop/start menu items to signal the running instance to show the logs, > configure the server, exit etc. This should work, but will be kinda klunky. > > 3) Put effort into polishing Joao's Electron based runtime. This might be > a good long term solution as it would remove the need to have any C++ code > of our own, and might allow us to use Electron's update mechanism to do > software updates. The downsides are that we would lose support for dockable > tabs (new windows only), and it wouldn't work on CentOS/RHEL 6 which we > currently support. > > Thoughts and comments please folks? How do we want to proceed? I'm > currently leaning towards 2 for v3, and possibly moving to 3 in the long > term. > As per our previous efforts on Qt's web rendering framework, I am not in favor of adding it again as it add lots of dependency and complexity. I would suggest to go for option 2 - To re-work the current runtime code and find out how to get already running instance of pgadmin4. > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company >
