request for review and testing: default file name

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Sep 10 07:29:22 PDT 2012


On Sep 9, 2012, at 10:49 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 17:43 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> if filenames are given, everything is like today.
> 
> I was thinking that we got to be careful with this. At the moment I
> guess most of us start subsurface from the cli just because we keep
> editing and recompiling it.

I sure hope so.

> But once it gets into the different repo, I suspect most user will start
> it by clicking on the icon. So there will never be a filename given.
> This means that switching from a dive database to another one will be
> hard if we don't have a 'Close' option in the menu.

Yes. Definitely. I was even thinking about a "Change Subsurface Database" menu option (someone else had mentioned that they wanted the ability to switch between multiple users - I have been thinking about good ways to implement that, too).

/D


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