Live data from Hacker News

DBeaver – open-source database client

github.com

21–30 of 161 posts

Re: DBeaver – open-source database client

#21
post #17

I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus. I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.

DBeaver uses SWT toolkit, its widgets are as platform-native as Java can do. Some of them can be much faster with long text editing than default Java Swing widgets.

Re: DBeaver – open-source database client

#22
post #17

I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus. I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.

Ugliness is something I found to be quite common in Java based apps. I never understood why, though.

Re: DBeaver – open-source database client

#23

It's a decent free and cross platform UI. Doesn't have all the DB specific features of a tool like PG admin or MySQL Workbench. Still, I like having the same tool for all my basic needs, and only use a more specialized one where I really need it.

Can you elaborate on what DB specific features are missing?

Re: DBeaver – open-source database client

#24
post #17

I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus. I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.

Not good at supporting GTK either, its the sole reason I do not use it on gnome

What do you use?

Re: DBeaver – open-source database client

#25
post #22
post #17

I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus. I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.

Ugliness is something I found to be quite common in Java based apps. I never understood why, though.

+1, except for Jetbrains IDEs that have polished UI

Re: DBeaver – open-source database client

#26
post #22
post #17

I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus. I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.

Ugliness is something I found to be quite common in Java based apps. I never understood why, though.

None of major Java/OpenJDK contributors (Oracle, Red Hat, SAP etc) care about desktop GUI Java libs. Jet Brains do care, but they are not major. All Java progress is concentrated on backend cloud services for 10-15 years already. This can explain why Swing is so underdeveloped and JavaFX was thrown away. Basically much more effort is required to make Java GUI look and behave nicely, comparing to Delphi/Lazarus or .NET GUI libs or Qt.

Re: DBeaver – open-source database client

#28
post #17

I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus. I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.

It is free tool with gobbles of functionality. I use it occasionally and it works great. Whatever set of widgets it uses does not concern me at all. It does what I need and is convenient enough. Maybe it would matter more if I was spending all my work time with it but in reality I use it very occasionally.

So thank to the developers.

I also use another DB admin tool: HeidiSQL. This one is lightning fast. Most likely because it is native application. Written in Delphi btw

Same thanks to the developer

Re: DBeaver – open-source database client

#29
post #17

I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus. I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.

[dead]

Re: DBeaver – open-source database client

#30

Functionally it is very good, I like it very much. it does show that not all dark modes are created equal however. I think it takes an especially good designer to do dark mode well. A good example of a well done dark mode (in my opinion of course) is Grafana.

[dead]
Post reply on HN